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“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

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Author:Gillian Welch

“At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.”

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Book:Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.”

“The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].”

Nature Secret Mystery Tree Roots Profound Absurd Existential Delirium

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”

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Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.”

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Author:William Ralph Inge

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.”

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Author:Christopher Vogler

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”

People Term Mystery Shadow Profound Abstract Vacuums

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.”

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Book:Emotionally Weird: A Novel

Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”

Life Wells Compassion Mystery Demand Profound Conception Reverence Smallest Poorest Mystery Of Life Profound Love

Author:Albert Schweitzer

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