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“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

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Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems

Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems

“Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.”

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Book:Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”

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Author:Sara Maitland

“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.”

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Book:The Jaguar Hunter

Source: The Jaguar Hunter

“Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.”

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Author:Jeanne Moreau

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.”

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Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.”

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Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.”

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Author:Makoto Shinkai