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"On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons."
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"There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us."

"She loves mysteries so much, she became one."

"She loved so much misteries tha she became one."

"Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical."

"When the servants break the cups and saucers, a 'puzzle' arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the 'guest' (of this world) does worries."

"Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would."

"Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt."
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"The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic."


"Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them."


"His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."


"Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in! There are men who, when an incident stands half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious."


"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves-say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."


"He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself."
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