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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?”

Doe Seems Waiting Mystery Silent Desert Veils Hints Elusive Evoke Unknowing

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.”

Giving Believe Stills Pain Teach Mystery Sorrow Infinite Remains Pity Thanks Veils

Author:Robert Nathan

“China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.”

World Has Beens Stills Seems Culture Social Results Mystery China Unpredictable Veils Globalization Social Systems

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.”

Want Stills Literature Mystery Feminine Veils

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”

Philosophy Dark Wonder Struggle Mystery Slave Veils Penetrate Wonder And Mystery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.”

World Littles Art Consciousness Mystery Expectations Art Is Realization Concrete Veils Pointless Artifacts

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”

People Art Sometimes Passion Literature Secret Mystery Effects Ordinary Intellect Veils Ordinary People Mystery Of Life

Book:The Essential Oscar Wilde

Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde