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• Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Blue, Suffering

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Country, Father, Past

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Animal, New Orleans

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• I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Handsome

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sports, Dog, Real

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• A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny. Then �the desperate hit man sends a ghoul after the girl to finish things up, my curiosity's piqued. That same ghoul ends up with his head cut off by a mysterious redhead . . . Ah. Now I'm interested.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Cousin, Jobs

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• The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

  Deborah Harkness

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.382, Penguin

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• You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and mysterious. The taste of you drives me wild. I want to be with you, be inside you, shout to the world that you are mine at the same time I want to keep you hidden where you will exist only for me. You make me feel invincible, little bird.

  Katie MacAlister

  Night, Air, Water

  Katie Macalister (2008). “Playing With Fire: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.177, Penguin

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• Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Firefly, Trying, Fickle

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Keys To The Repository: Blue Bloods”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

  Deb Caletti

  Lying, Moon, Greatness

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Letting Go, Brother

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• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Courage, Failure, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Passion, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press

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• The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Voice, Librarian

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 30, 2015

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Language, Bizarre

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.43

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• He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Men, Law, Different

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Yellow, Color

  Jorge Luis Borges, María Kodama (1985). “Aterstallaren”, E P Dutton

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• There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

  Werner Herzog

  Imagination, Cinema, Poetic

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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• Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

  E. M. Forster

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.126, 谷月社

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• What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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