Quotes About Mystery

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

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How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?

Entonces aquel escrito acusador que había visto en poder de Villefort, y que había tenido en sus manos, se representaba en su imaginación; cada línea se le aparecía iluminada en la pared como el Mane, Tecel

The Countess G—— insists upon it that he is a vampire.

Desrues was, however, I

I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom, murmured Athos;

Luego todo parecía que se confundiese y se borrase a su vista, como las últimas sombras de una linterna mágica que se apaga, hallándose de nuevo en la habitación de las estatuas, iluminada totalmente por una de esas lámparas antiguas de luz pálida, que en medio de la noche acompañan al sueño o a la voluptuosidad.

Then two dark figures appeared. One of them, tall, majestic, stern, sat down near the table on which Van Baerle had placed the taper.

Captain van Deken

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.

les murailles ont des oreilles, mais elles n'ont pas de langue ;

Alexandre Dumas

Thousand and One Nights.

fortuna, señor conde?

God alone knows what is going on within the hearts of men.

the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto

D'Artagnan wondered at the fragile and unknown threads from which the fates of nations and the lives of men are sometimes hung.

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

Servono le sventure per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice

am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice.

The French lawyer is simply a man extensively acquainted with the statutes of his country; but the English or American lawyer resembles the hierophants of Egypt, for, like them, he is the sole interpreter of an occult science.