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• Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

  Charles Lamb

  Destiny, Errands, Shows

  Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.627

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• And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

  Howard Thurman

  Adventure, Stories, Bears

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

  Ben Okri

  Destiny, Rivers, Causes

  "The Famished Road". Book by Ben Okri, March 14, 1991.

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• It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Problem

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Special, Ordinary

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• An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Knights

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3332, Bantam

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• We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

  Diane Keaton

  Past, Trying, Solve

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• Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Jobs, Book, Heart

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, IV: God and Comparative Religion, 1925.

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• I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Matter, Admiration

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

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• Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Body, Splits

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• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

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• Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suffering, Tasks, Elements

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• Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Ideas

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• For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Doe, Answers

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Catholic, Solutions

  "The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

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• 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

  Louise Glück

  Self, Mind, Answers

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows

  "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

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• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communist Manifesto, Communism

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Long, Speak

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  Northrop Frye

  Important, Identity, Problem

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.346, University of Toronto Press

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• Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.

  David Wong

  Mad, Secret, Awful

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.10, Titan Books

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• Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, World, Inspection

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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