"Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves……" — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough… — Remy de Gourmont
• Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best… — Carl Jung
• What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting… — Roger Angell
• The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. — Alfred North Whitehead
• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and… — William James
• A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only… — Carl Jung
• Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning… — Claude Arrau

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