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Quotes About Mystery

I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.
~ Elena Ferrante
Parlammo un po' di quando aveva conosciuto Fernando e s'erano innamorati, disse una cosa che mi colpì molto. Disse: "Vuoi bene per tutta la vita a persone che non sai mai veramente chi sono".
~ Elena Ferrante
Ano, sta?ilo zatáhnout za nit, aby si ?lovÄ›k mohl dál hrát se záhadnou postavou mojí mámy, tu ji obohatit, tu ji ponížit. Ale uvÄ›domila jsem si, že už necítím potÃ…â"¢ebu to dÄ›lat, a pohnula jsem se v paprsku svÄ›tla pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak, jak se mi vždycky zdálo, že se pohybuje ona.
~ Elena Ferrante
sentido alguno, y que era bonito solo vernos de vez en cuando para oír el sonido loco del cerebro de la una resonando dentro del sonido loco del cerebro de la otra.
~ Elena Ferrante
Yes, it was enough to pull one thread to go on playing with the mysterious figure of my mother, now enriching it, now humiliating it.
~ Elena Ferrante
Queres bem para toda a vida a pessoas que nunca chegas a saber quem realmente são.
~ Elena Ferrante
Un joven es siempre una incógnita. Matarlo es matar la posibilidad del misterio, todo lo que hubiera podido ser, su extraordinaria riqueza, su complejidad. •José Soriano Muñoz, maestro de la Escuela Wilfrido Massieu
~ Elena Poniatowska
De pronto la miro y ya no está. Vuelvo a mirarla, la define su ausencia. Ha ido a unirse a lago que le da fuerza y no sé lo que es. No puedo seguirla, no entiendo hacia qué espacio invisible se ha dirigido, qué aire inefable la resguarda y la aísla; desde luego ya no está en el mundo y por más que manoteo no me ve, permanece siempre fuera de mi alcance. Sé que mi amor la sustenta, claro, pero su ausencia es sólo suya y en ella no tengo cabida.
~ Elena Poniatowska
The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems, which should not be analyzed either.)
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations.
~ Eli Khamarov
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~ Elia Kazan
Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all twisted out of shape and the gray wolf Berserker was missing. Dracula had temporarily inherited its body. Dracula had a totally difference experience at the zoo from that of other people.
~ Elif Batuman
How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other's rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.
~ Elif Batuman
Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.
~ Elif Batuman
Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?
~ Elif Batuman
Pluto (the Greek god Hades) is associated with divination because it symbolizes the revelation of secret or occult knowledge.
~ Anthony Louis
It is difficult to reconcile oneself to the view that a single life determines our lot. We seem to come toward the end of our life just when we begin to get some insight.
~ Anthony Peake
I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.
~ Anthony S. Maulucci
It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Charismatic individuals, such as Wagner, open the doors of our perceptions, transcend our limitations, and reveal mysteries unknown to us.
~ Anthony Storr
In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
~ Anthony Trollope
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery