Mystery

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The magical mystery tour
is coming to take you away,
coming to take you away.

—Beatles

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Life is a mystery.

—Madonna

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

—Oscar Wilde

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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

—Henry David Thoreau

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When we spiritually encounter mystery, it is inseparably about something (the inexplicable) and about how we respond to that something (with wonder).

—Thomas P. Kasulis

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I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life—all mystery and magic.

—Harry Houdini

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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

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

—Max Planck

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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

—Rene Magritte

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I let the mystery settle into my music.

—Bruce Springsteen

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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

—Rene Daumal

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.