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"Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within."
— Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: mysteries

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"Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: ignorance, mysteries, problems

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"The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back."
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)

tags: mysteries

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"I am self-educated from genre books."
— Charlaine Harris

tags: fiction, mysteries

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"Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear."
— Rex Stout (The Doorbell Rang)

tags: crime, mysteries

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"Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life."
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Witches of Worm)

tags: beleiving, mysteries

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"To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."
— Rupert Hart-Davis

tags: detective-stories, mysteries

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"‘I miss you when you’re not around,’ he said. ‘I can’t sleep when you’re not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you’re up to.’"
— Victoria Laurie

tags: crime, dutch, eye, laurie, mysteries, psychic, rivers, seen, victoria

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"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

tags: knowledge, limitations, mysteries, wisdom

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"Discoveries may excite our blood but mysteries sustain our soul. When we're strong and arrogant, mysteries remind us how little we know of God's world. And when we are weak and desperate, they only encourage us to believe that anything is possible."
— Unkonwn author Voynich Menuscript

tags: mysteries

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