Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."
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Sphinx
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D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Sphinxes without secrets."
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"You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx."
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