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“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“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” - 1949

“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“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” - 1859

“Instinct is a marvellous thing . . . It can neither be explained nor ignored.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“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” - 1887

“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” - 1887

“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” - 1895

“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“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” - 1916

“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” - 2005

“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” - 1818

“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“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'” - 24 May 2015

“Mystery is never more than a mirage; it vanishes as soon as one tries to approach it.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“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” - 1890

“maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” - 1845

“Men have scars, women mysteries.” George R. R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows” - 2005

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“The final mystery is oneself.” Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” - 1905

“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” - 1922

“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” H. G. Wells, “The War of the Worlds” - 1898

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