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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
Arthur Christopher Benson
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”
Charles de Lint
“There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath”
Herman Melville
“Such is the essential mystery.”
Lao Tzu
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]”
Winston Churchill
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil”
Benjamin Disraeli
“There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.”
Charles de Gaulle
“They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace”
William Blake
“We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage”
Steve Biko
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.”
Dylan Thomas
