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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

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

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

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

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

—Aristophanes, 423 BC

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

—Plotinus, c. 255

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

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

—John Locke, 1689

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

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

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

—Italo Calvino, 1967