Quotes About Enigma

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Q is a terrific part.

Jamadars and bheesties,' said the helmsman. 'Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.' 'Twisted firestarters?' enquired the detective. 'I told you not to mention them.

He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]

Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.

among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.

Yo creo, y permítaseme este inciso, que la vida está cargada de cosas enigmáticas, pequeños acontecimientos que sólo están esperando el contacto epidérmico, nuestra mirada, para desencadenarse en una serie de hechos causales que luego, vistos a través del prisma del tiempo, no pueden sino producirnos asombro o espanto.

Jim liked dark women, apparently, history's secret women, he would say, without elaborating. As for me, I liked blondes.

Amalfitano began to weep. His little house, his parched yard, the television set and the video player, the magnificent northern Mexico sunset, struck him as enigmas that carried their own solutions with them, inscribed in chalk on the forehead. It's all so simple and so terrible, he thought. Then he got up from his faded yellow sofa and closed the curtains.

la vida no sólo es vulgar sino también inexplicable

El cielo era una manta tapada por una manta que a su vez tapaba otra manta aún más gruesa y húmeda.

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