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Quotes About Enigma

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
~ Don DeLillo
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
~ Don DeLillo
It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. What do I see? Something lazy, sexy and insatiable.
~ Don DeLillo
If this makes me sexier then where are you going?
~ Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
~ Don DeLillo
I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.
~ Don DeLillo
Quel po' di senso di colpa che provavo dipendeva dall'immagine di Jennifer sola e umiliata, non dal banale tradimento di Meredith. Per Jennifer io rimanevo un enigma. Rifiutavo di concederle la minima percezione di me, e la ragione posso solo immaginarla: avevo un bisogno disperato di ogni minima briciola del mio ego per vincere la paura di svanire io stesso.
~ Don DeLillo
Little is known about her. We are assured, however, that the same damnable involvements that obsess us obsess her too. Copulation. Strangeness. Applause.
~ Donald Barthelme
I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.
~ Donald Barthelme
I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
It is not so much the things we know that terrify us as it is the things we do not know, the things that break all known laws and rules, the things that come upon us unaware and shatter the pleasant dream of our little world.
~ Unknown
Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.
~ Donna Andrews
And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore
~ Donna Leon
the world is much stranger than we know or can say. And I know how you think, or how you like to think, but maybe this is one instance where you can't boil down to pure 'good' or pure 'bad' like you always want to do—? Like, your two different piles? Bad over here, good over here? Maybe not quite so simple.
~ Donna Tartt
There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.
~ Donna Tartt
God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.
~ Donna Tartt
The world is much stranger than we know or can say.
~ Donna Tartt
Bethlehem star. But we were not
~ Donna Tartt
been following turned his black Cadillac
~ J.A. Konrath
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~ J.A. Konrath
Not all things that cast man shadows were men.
~ Unknown
how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.
~ Jack Campbell
The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing," he said reflectively, "but I'm not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe—from sub-atomic particles to the universe—except itself.
~ Jack Finney