mysterious quotes

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

- Guy de Maupassant
  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.

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