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One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

—Roald Dahl, 1990

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

—Tom Robbins, 1976

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

—Albert Einstein, 1930

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979