mysterious quotes

La moindre chose contient un peu d'inconnu. Trouvons-le. The least thing contains something mysterious. Find it.

-Maupassant, Guy de
  Pierre et  Jean, pre¤  face.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Journalentry,16 Nov. InBradfordTorrey and F H Allen (eds) TheJournals of Henry DavidThoreau (1906).

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