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• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

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• Ya está". Marte terminó de escribir y lanzó el pergamino a Octavio. "Una profecía. Puedes añadirla a tus libros, grabarla en el suelo, lo que sea". Octavio leyó el pergamino. "Esto dice: 'Ve a Alaska. Encuentra a Thanatos y libéralo. Vuelve antes de la puesta de sol del veinticuatro de junio o muere'". "Sí", dijo Marte. "¿No está claro?" "Bueno, mi señor... normalmente las profecías no son claras. Están envueltas en acertijos. Riman, y..." Marte casualmente sacó otra granada de su cinturón. "¿Sí?" "¡La profecía es clara!" Octavio anunció. "¡Una búsqueda!

  Rick Riordan

  Libro, Escritura, Alaska

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• And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Hands, Skills

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• These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

  Ben Goldacre

  Running, Bullshit, Culture

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• The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles," Clary said angrily. "Do you even mean anything when you talk like that?" "He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Love You, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1461, Simon and Schuster

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• The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Fall, Winning, Starting Over

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• Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

  Bruno Schulz

  Animal, Men, Example

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). "La calle de los cocodrilos y otros cuentos", Penguin Classics

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• ¿Qué tengo en el bolsillo?", dijo en voz alta. Hablaba solo, pero Gollum pensó que era una adivinanza y se enfadó muchísimo. "¡No es justo! ¡No es justo!", siseó. "No es justo, tesoro mío, ¿verdad? ¿Preguntarnos qué tiene en sus asquerosos bolsillitos?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Upset, Pockets

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). "El Hobbit", p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• ¡Vean al OSO de tamaño temible! Todo el MUNDO está dentro de sus ojos. El TIEMPO se diluye, el pasado es un enigma; La TORRE te espera en el centro.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Parece que a la gente le cuesta mucho vivir con enigmas o dejarlos vivir, aunque uno pensaría que la vida está tan llena de enigmas como está que unas cuantas cosas más que no podamos responder no supondrían ninguna diferencia. Pero quizá sea precisamente esto lo que resulta tan insoportable, que hay cosas irracionales en nuestra propia psique que trastornan la mente consciente en sus ilusorias certezas al confrontarla con el enigma de su existencia.

  Carl Jung

  Pensamiento, Diferencias, Personas

  Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Alive, World

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• A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Strong, Jobs

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.46, Random House

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• What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

  Walter de La Mare

  Embrujada

  Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Cualquiera que se dé cuenta de lo que es el Amor, la dedicación del corazón, tan profunda, tan absorbente, tan misteriosa, tan imperativa, y siempre, justo en las naturalezas más nobles, tan fuerte, no puede dejar de ver cuán difícil, cuán trágico incluso, debe ser a menudo el destino de aquellos cuyos sentimientos más profundos están destinados desde los primeros días a ser un enigma y un tropiezo, inexplicables para ellos mismos, pasados por alto en silencio por los demás.

  Edward Carpenter

  Fuerte, Bloque, Corazón

  Edward Carpenter "El sexo intermedio", Routledge

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Insult

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• Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Young Friends, Joy

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• Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Unions, Foreign Policy

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• Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

  Jon Krakauer

  Writing, Views, Symphony

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

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• The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

  David Hume

  Doubt, Religion, Mystery

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• And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Rain, Flower

  Khalil Gibran (2007). "Kahlil Gibran: Obras maestras"

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• Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sphinx, Periods, Abyss

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• Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

  Arthur Keith

  Religious, Science, Men

  Sir Arthur Keith (1927). “Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects”

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• At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

  Abraham Flexner

  Science, Careers, Curiosity

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• Mi abuela me contó que su padre solía plantearle un acertijo: ¿Qué hay que romper para unir a una familia? El pan, por supuesto.

  Jodi Picoult

  Padre, Abuela, Orden

  Jodi Picoult (2013). "The Storyteller", p.179, Simon and Schuster.

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• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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