“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
“At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.”
The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
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Context: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence".
