#myst

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#hear #i #lives #mystery #offering

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. ↗

— Richard Russo

#does #faith #find #happens #how

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#fun #i #mysteries #never #probably

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cast #designs #light #man #moves