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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… — Georges Bernanos
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the… — C.S. Lewis
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious.… — Mortimer Adler
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. — Paul Gauguin
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories. — Odilon Redon
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How… — Cheryl Strayed
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens… — Tom Peters
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality. — Sivananda
The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what… — Cecilia Bartoli
For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that… — Robert Musil
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. — William J. Brennan
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing… — Kevin DeYoung
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another,… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;… — Algernon Blackwood
You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind. — Gore Vidal
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which… — Gabriel Marcel
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if… — Rob Bell
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have… — Clive Bell

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