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“The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?”

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Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.”

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Author:Aimee Bender

“I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.”

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Author:Jay Neugeboren

“My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.”

Mean Mystery Painting Visible Evoke

Author:Rene Magritte

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

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Author:Rene Magritte

“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”

Grows Mystery Strange Garden Plant Evoke

Author:Ken Kesey

“The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

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Author:Ken Kesey

“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.”

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Author:Kate Forsyth

“We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.”

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Book:Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation