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“Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.”

May States Mystery Dog Affection Mood Ancestor Marvelous My Dog Fidelity Deathless

Author:William James

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.”

Ifs Way Light Joy Night Black Natural Break Darkness Mystery Evolution Terrible Flow Endure Mood Tao Break Through

Author:Arnold Mindell

“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”

Fall Mystery Strange Add Mood Gravity Decline

Author:Charles Nodier

“It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?”

Thinking Said Ideas Helping Stories Together Found Silence Mystery Solutions Boxes Mood Unhappy Chinese Desperate Openness Puzzles Secrecy Ambiguity Evasion

Author:Anais Nin

“MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.”

Lasts Lord Mystery Mood Chiefs Charm

Book:The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde