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Quotes About Enigma

The visible world, I think, is abstract and mysterious enough.
~ Philip Guston
a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage
~ Philip José Farmer
I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.
~ Philip Palmer
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
~ Philip Roth
Je songe que l'énigme de sa mort est ce qui me divertit du mystère de sa vie.
~ Philippe Besson
Je n'ai jamais su au juste quel est son âge.
~ Philippe Claudel
Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)
~ Philippe Collas
body in the companionway. A quick
~ Phillip Margolin
green trench coat so that it hid brown hair that reached
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
task not unlike coming to grips with the Holy Ghost.' There
~ Pierangelo Isernia
I have discovered a truly marvellous demonstration [of this general theorem] which this margin is too narrow to contain.
~ Pierre de Fermat
I'm always the kid who is going to be finding out if there is a cemetery or an abandoned amusement park that I can go visit as opposed to the beach, so it wasn't too much of a stretch to get me to the world of Ninth House.'
~ Leigh Bardugo
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
~ Dana Schutz
And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
~ Damon Albarn
It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
~ Peter Baynham
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
~ Jon Krakauer
Qué hermosa es siempre la cara que no hemos visto.
~ Jonathan Franzen
In the elevator it seemed to Enid that the ship was suffering not only from a seesaw motion but also from a yaw, as if its bow were the face of someone experiencing repugnance.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In
~ Jonathan Lethem
Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing?
~ Jonathan Lethem
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
~ Jorge Amado
Definitivamente sé cuidar mi misterio, es imposible saber más de lo que yo misma cuento
~ Jorge Franco