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• The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Elude Us, Trying, Meaning Nothing

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dishes, Fishes

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 9

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• This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

  Meher Baba

  Discovery, Imagination, Research

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Men

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Mind, Birth

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• If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Mazes, World, Speech

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.38, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Essence

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

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• Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

  Harold Bloom

  Jesus, Irony, Repetition

  Harold Bloom (2005). “Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intelligent, Design, Asking

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• [Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

  Will Cuppy

  Space, Long, Four

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

  Stephen Crane

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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• I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  War, Ideas, Important

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 190), 2004.

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

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• Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Places To Go, Mystery

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• But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."

  Paul Watzlawick

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Lying

  Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

  Maya Angelou

  Music

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.185, Random House

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• So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

  Joseph Heller

  Book, Men, Islands

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• Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

  Alice Hoffman

  Giving

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sex, Men, Mind

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• All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martin

  Movie, Grand Canyon

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• Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Paris, London, Explanation

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• Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace...and care properly for this planet we all share.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, Simple, Keys

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