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Quotes About Enigma

Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.
~ Clarice Lispector
I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.
~ Clarice Lispector
And I scream: I feel, I suffer, I am happy, I am moved. Only my enigma interests me. More than anything, I search for myself in my great void.
~ Clarice Lispector
Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what. And the secret is such that only if the mission is finally carried out do I, all of a sudden, see that I was born entrusted with it - all of life is a secret mission.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sin embargo, a veces adivinaba. Eran manchas cósmicas que sustituían al entender.
~ Clarice Lispector
Flores envenenadas na jarra. Roxas azuis, encarnadas, atapetam o ar. Que riqueza de hospital. Nunca vi mais belas e mais perigosas. É assim então o teu segredo. Teu segredo é tão parecido contigo que nada me revela além do que já sei. E sei tão pouco como se o teu enigma fosse eu. Assim como tu és o meu.
~ Clarice Lispector
El día que el ser humano se hizo una pregunta sobre sí mismo, entonces se convirtió en el más ininteligible de los seres por donde circulaba la sangre.
~ Clarice Lispector
Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it. ——————
~ Clarice Lispector
Why is a dog free? Because it is the living mystery that doesn't wonder about itself.
~ Clarice Lispector
Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva.
~ Clarice Lispector
Viver é o meu código e o meu enigma. E quando eu morrer serei para os outros um código e um enigma.
~ Clarice Lispector
La inspiración es como un misterio olor a ambar".
~ Clarice Lispector
I am the priestess of a secret that I no longer know. And I serve out of blissful ignorance. I found out something I was unable to understand, my lips became sealed, and I retained only the incomprehensible fragments of a ritual.
~ Clarice Lispector
Clark Ashton Smith
~ Unknown
la certeza de que hay algo mucho más grande que el ser humano: algo que es ajeno y no se puede abarcar, pero que existe. Ficción, sugestión, fe, no sé cuál es la palabra adecuada.
~ Unknown
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
~ Clive James
I have no name for what circles so perfectly
~ Coleman Barks
She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.
~ Unknown
Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.
~ Heraclitus
Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.
~ Herman Bavinck
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
~ Herman Melville
Was it true that Mr. Rask was omnipotently rich? Was he really still a bachelor? Why on earth? Did he ever go out? What were the tastes and pleasures of such a unique man?
~ Unknown
He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
~ Hilary Mantel
But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!
~ Hippocrates