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“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.”
Winston Churchill
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
Albert Einstein
“Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.”
Robert Nathan
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
George Orwell
“Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.”
Jean Vanier
“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.”
Tennessee Williams
“The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”
