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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

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The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. ↗

— Otto Weininger

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