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“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The final mystery is oneself.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Mystery is never more than a mirage; it vanishes as soon as one tries to approach it.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” John Green, Paper Towns
“What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Men have scars, women mysteries.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Instinct is a marvellous thing . . . It can neither be explained nor ignored.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“God sets us nothing but riddles.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then...” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“You are mysterious, I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
“I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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