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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
- 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
- I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid… — Zahi Hawass
- 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
- A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we… — Gregory Bateson
- The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
- Sphinxes without secrets. — Oscar Wilde