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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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

—Elias Canetti, 1960

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC