Enigmatic Quotes

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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic… — Philip Roth
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge… — Pascal Mercier
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld… — Soren Kierkegaard
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It… — Carl Jung
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words… — Elliot Perlman
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous… — Wassily Kandinsky
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. — Connie Brockway
Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the… — Lev Grossman
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange… — Sylvia Plath
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.… — Mary Zimmerman
His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny… — Karen Marie Moning
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know… — William S. Burroughs
A long-dead angel who thought to own me,â€ was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. â€œI tore out his throat. After… — Nalini Singh
Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place… — Steven Shainberg
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One… — Brian Skerry
They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did… — Margot Kidder
This world is so beautiful, like an enigmatic smile, If the world is so much beautiful, then how beautiful the creator would be, He made… — Aisha

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