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• Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

  Haruki Murakami

  Earthquakes, Feet, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 02, 2015

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• It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

  George Orwell

  Loss, Mysterious, Loss Of Faith

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Want, Stuff

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• What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Time, Forever, Four

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• Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Mysterious

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• When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Serendipity, Void, Paint

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• You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

  Gillian Welch

  Song, Flavor, Logical

  "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.

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• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

  Nellie Bly

  Silence, Forever, Missing

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

  Agnes Martin

  Beauty, Thinking, People

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

  J. T. Walsh

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, People, Understanding

  "Interview PJ Harvey: 'I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Poison

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• 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; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Fall, Adventure, Past

  Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Confused, Illumination, Light

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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