“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.”
— Eudora Welty, book The Optimist's Daughter
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
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Original German: Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern dass sie ist.
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Variant: The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
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Context: A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.
The fringes of eternity, —
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In that bright shred of glittering sea,
I reach out for and hold.
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