Quotes About Enigma

We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy (p. 50).

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.

People feel that in her, the nonhuman. People are afraid of her. Something in her inspires a nonhuman attachment. Sur elle, the human feelings seem to slip, they glisser—

Unamuno says: "The prehistoric is unconsciousness; it is the void." (This of course is literature, but it sounds convincing.) Nobody knows anything about the prehistoric!

Perfidious, infinitely desirable, drawing me to her as towards death.

Cabello rubio, tez pálida, demoníacas cejas angulares, una sonrisa cruel con un hoyuelo cautivador. Pérfida, infinitamente deseable, me atraía hacia ella como hacia la muerte.

I find these nobodies so much more interesting than the celebrated people. Why is that?

There are more answers in heaven than questions on the lips of men.

For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.

Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion.

GOD works in mysterious ways

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...

The best secrets are the most twisted

They say the bottles lined up along her shelves contain aphrodisiacs, poisons and perfumes, but that only she knows which ones are safe and which lethal, for they carry no labels, and that when she starts to prepare death for someone, the man or woman for whom it is intended feels a terrible shiver run through them, as if they have already been touched by the clammy cold of the grave. Or so they say. They say a great many things about Caterina Sforza. But though there is

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.

Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood.

A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.

Every other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable.

A young man who is full of presentiments believes that he can account for much and discover even more in mysteries, and that he must work by means of mysteries.

Geheimnisse sind noch keine Wunder.

Many strange things happen in this world