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Quotes About Mystery

Perhaps he walked two miles between the high walls of the lane before its descent ceased, but he thrilled with the sense of having journeyed very far, all the long way from the known to the unknown.
~ Arthur Machen
In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
~ Arthur Machen
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?
~ Arthur Machen
There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision, beyond these 'chases in Arras, dreams in a career,' beyond them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil; but I do know, Clarke, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night from before another's eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.
~ Arthur Machen
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
~ Arthur Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~ Arthur Machen
By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment's idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that I had tracked a hundred times already, the great truth burst upon me, and I saw, mapped out in lines of light, a whole world, a sphere unknown; continents and islands, and great oceans in which no ship has sailed (to my belief) since a Man first lifted up his eyes and beheld the sun, and the stars of heaven, and the quiet earth beneath.
~ Arthur Machen
Every secret is a wrinkle.
~ Arthur Phillips
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
It has been found again. What? – Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Hire myself out to whom? What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe? March through whose blood?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères ! Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères, Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini ! Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit ! Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile... - Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Magical flowers were humming. The turf slopes cradled *him.* Beasts of a fabulous elegance were circulating. Storm clouds were piling up on the rising sea made of an eternity of hot tears.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I am hidden and I am not.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Il n'y a personne ici et il y a qeulqu'un: je ne voudrais pas répandre mon trésor.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Eternas ondinas, dividid el agua fina. Venus, del azul hermana, conmueve las puras aguas. Judío errante en Noruega, dime, ¿cómo nieva? Viejos exiliados tiernos, contadme el océano. YO-. Nunca esas bebidas puras, ni esas flores de florero, ni leyendas, ni figuras, saciarme pudieron. Coplista, tu ahijada es mi sed que se desboca, hidra íntima sin bocas que roe y devasta.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
From castles of bone unknown music comes
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Eu înÅ£eleg,dar neputând da explicaÅ£ii f?r? a folosi cuvinte p?gâne,aÅŸ prefera s? tac.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Fakat sonra, geçen gecenin sudan maceralar? hakk?ndaki hafif gevezelikten sonra, en duru ruha bile bulan?k ve tehlikeli girdaplar sokabilecek o gizli, hemen hemen hiç sezilmeyen arzulara dald?lar ve hiç özlem duymad?klar? ve kaderin anla??lmaz rüzgar?n?n kendilerini, rüyada da olsa, bir defa savurabileceÄŸi gizli bölgelerden bahsettiler.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
his hands as if her were
~ Arthur Slade