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- Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no… — Charles Baudelaire
- I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid… — Zahi Hawass
- Sphinxes without secrets. — Oscar Wilde
- In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by… — Gustave Le Bon
- Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire
- It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
- Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest… — W.N.P. Barbellion