“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”

— Kamila Shamsie

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Kamila Shamsie 18

Pakistani writer 1973

Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor

Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Maxim 210, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“We are alive within mystery, by miracle.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Context: We are alive within mystery, by miracle. "Life," wrote Erwin Chargaff, "is the continual intervention of the inexplicable." We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. The constructions of language (which is to say the constructions of thought) are formed within experience, not the other way around. Finally we live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. There is no reason whatever to assume that the languages of science are less limited than other languages.