“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
He sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por sí sola.
"Unworthy", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: I have thought from time to time that the only thing without mystery is happiness, since it justifies itself.
“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: An Offer From a Gentleman
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. <!-- p. 195