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Quotes About Enigma

But the moon doesn't say what it knows.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Did everything that had magic have teeth?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Everything looks like magic when you don't understand it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
oh, come on, you must know 'Leave It Black.' I see a black door and I'm extremely satisfied with how it looks?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I think this is very strange --" "All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
~ Cathleen Falsani
omne ignotum pro magnifico est).
~ Giambattista Vico
La meilleure façon de commencer est de dire : Balthus est un peintre dont on ne sait rien. Et maintenant, regardons les peintures. (p. 91)
~ Gilles Néret
Just like a character in a novel, he disappeared suddenly, without leaving the slightest trace behind.
~ Giorgio Bassani
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
~ Giorgio de Chirico
et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?
~ Giorgio de Chirico
A šta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?
~ Giorgio de Chirico
A šta da ljubim, ako ne zagonetku?
~ Giorgio de Chirico
There are more puzzles in the shadow of a man walking under the sun than in all past, present, and future religions.
~ Giorgio de Chirico
Of this poetry I'm left with the emptiness of an endless secret
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
She only knew that there was something she did not know.
~ Glenway Wescott
The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
~ Glyn Parry
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
~ Goethe
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And so we come to it—the everlasting mystery of woman. One may not be able to get along with her; yet is it patent, as of old time, that one cannot get along without her.
~ Jack London
My talismans are not obviously useless.
~ Jack Vance
He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.
~ Jacqueline Carey