#myster

I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut. ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#scandinavian-mysteries #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted. ↗

— James R. Benn

#world-war- #world-war-ii

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#life #more #moreover #mystery #paris

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#i #i think #i write #me #mysterious

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#artist #away #energies #feeling #follows

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#all things #beginning #content #i #insoluble

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery. ↗

— David Duchovny

#great #kid #mystery #never #sex

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. ↗

— David Eagleman

#confront #mysteries #wonderful

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#between #ceremony #connected #hand #holy