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I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
David Lynch
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Paul Gauguin
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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
B. F. Skinner
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
Bob Noorda
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
Scott Westerfeld
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Seamus Heaney
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The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Michel Quoist
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
Duke of Wellington
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The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.
James Dobson
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Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
Annie Leibovitz
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
Francois Mauriac
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A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
Huangbo Xiyun
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If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
Brian Molko
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
Walter Scott
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I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
John Ortberg
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If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
Lauren Bacall
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I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.
Michael Kenna
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
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There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.
Brian Swimme
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There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
Philip Guston
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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
Allen Tate
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One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
Blaise Cendrars
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The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.
H. L. Mencken
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I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.
Riccardo Tisci
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You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.
C. S. Lewis
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
Jacques Lacan
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
Amos Oz
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Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
Justus von Liebig
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God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
Penn Jillette
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
Garry Winogrand
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Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
Bill Hybels
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
Emily Blunt
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Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
Eugene Wigner
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The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
Wendell Berry
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Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
Carolyn Keene
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A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.
Stephen Crane
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Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
Jeet Aulakh
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A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
Henry David Thoreau
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I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
Charlotte Rampling