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Quotes About Mystery

Your ears are lovely, he said, but there's a kind of eerie beauty to your profile.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Era el cuerpo de mujer que invitaba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Las noches ofrecen sapos, perros negro y cadáveres de ahogados.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Tu eÈ™ti singurul care nu-È›i vezi propria fa??. ÎÈ›i atingi zilnic figura convins fiind c? imaginea reflectat? ar fi cea pe care o vezi direct. Ky?ko r?mase un timp pe gânduri, întrebându-se ce sens o avea oare faptul c? Dumnezeu i-a f?cut pe oameni astfel încât s? nu-È™i poat? vedea chipul.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn't even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Por qué florecía aquel loto en medio de una hoguera? ¿Por qué no se marchitaba?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Una de las muchachas era hermosa. Llevaba un bulto envuelto en un pañuelo con un diseño blanco de mil grullas sobre un fondo rosado de crespón
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Do you understand what I have not said and what you have not heard in this room that does not exist?
~ Unknown
And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships—all relations—involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?
~ Zadie Smith
I got something to tell you, said Keisha Blake, disguising her voice with her voice.
~ Zadie Smith
Did all friendships—all relations—involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?
~ Zadie Smith
for the Owl there was something Infinitely Preferable About the Night. The Owl had difficulty explaining this to other birds.
~ Zadie Smith
Unbeknownst to all involved, ancient ley-lines run underneath these two journeys—or, to put it in modern parlance, this is a rerun.
~ Zadie Smith
These are old secrets. They will come out like wisdom teeth when the time is right.)
~ Zadie Smith
But here I fear I am becoming nostalgic. I am dreaming of a Web that caters to a kind of person who no longer exists. A private person, a person who is a mystery, to the world and—which is more important—to herself. Person as mystery: this idea of personhood is certainly changing, perhaps has already changed. Because I find I agree with Zuckerberg: selves evolve.
~ Zadie Smith
begins with you walking towards a huge pit. The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don't know what it looks like or sounds like or smells like. You don't know whether it will be good or bad. You just walk towards it. Your will is a clarinet and your footsteps are attended by all the violins. The closer you get to the pit, the more you begin to have the
~ Zadie Smith
Mogla bih da prepri?am sadržaj, ali bilo bi to kao opisivati katedralu govore?i za nju da je gomila kamenja koja se završava jednim šiljkom
~ zafon carlos ruiz
Armies of marching men told of that blight of nations old or young—war. These, and birds unnamable, and beasts unclassable, with dots and marks and hieroglyphics, recorded the history of a bygone people. Symbols they were of an era that had gone into the dim past, leaving only these marks, {Symbols recording the history of a bygone people.} forever unintelligible; yet while they stood, century after century, ineffaceable, reminders of the glory, the mystery, the sadness of life.
~ Zane Grey
only back of the bar. A white-clad figure rushed
~ Zane Grey
perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His
~ Zane Grey
she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Mystery is the essence of divinity
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
~ Zora Neale Hurston