What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
Some things were beyond understanding.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
Nature loves to hide.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
