“The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets.”

Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 140

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American artist 1905–1970

Barnett Newman (1905–1970) American artist

Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 124

“An Egyptian priest…. plays up the mystery of language to enhance his own power.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

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“The Beloved created your being from His own love so that He could see His own beauty in the mirror of your heart and make you privy of His mysteries.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

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“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

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“A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

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“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.”

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American author

“In his heart, Simon Yakida knew he was digging his own grave.”

Nick Turse (1975) American writer

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