Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
“Mystery attracts mystery.”
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" - Written February 1924, published May-June-July 1924 in Weird Tales
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“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
“[Art is].. the mysterious expression of the mysterious..”
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 17
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017) Russian poet, film director, teacher
"Mysteries" (1960), st. 10; Dimitri Obolensky (ed.) The Heritage of Russian Verse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976) p. 452.
Clifford D. Simak book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter I (p. 6)
Context: There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.
“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)
“There is no magic, only mysteries explained, and mysteries unexplained.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 106)
“Within that awful volume lies
The mystery, of mysteries!”
Walter Scott book The Monastery
Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 12.