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    Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

by Charles De Lint Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative read more

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. read more

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

by Albert Schweitzer Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind read more

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

by The Divine Pymander Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man read more

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

by Harry Emerson Fosdick Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is read more

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

by James Arthur Baldwin Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

by Arthur Conan Doyle Found in: Mystery Quotes,
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