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“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

Interest Secret Generations Mystery Youth Taste Enthusiasm Posterity Predecessors Secret Society

Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

“I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.”

World Soul Left Responsibility Generations Mystery Responsible Awe Trembling Mystery Of Life Stranded

Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

Source: Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

“The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.”

World Bigs Views Generations Mystery Missing Actresses Glamour My Generation World View Derrida

Author:Camille Paglia

“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”

Mind Body Process Brain Generations Mystery Elements Function Compare Feeding Absorbing Resumes Ethereal

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Persons Book Self Character Running Age Force Stuff Process Generations Mystery Oneself Loyalty Ridiculous Defined Tension Peculiar Flawed Self Education Brits

Author:John le Carre

“Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?”

Firsts Humans Moments Reality Would Be Science Answers Generations Mystery Needed Ancestor Odds Deluded

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”

Should Matter Science Sex Generations Mystery Mankind Should Have Species Clay Reproduction

Author:Martin Luther

“What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.”

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist