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God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

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

—Italo Calvino, 1967

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

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

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

—William Shakespeare, 1592

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

—Edward Bellamy, 1888

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

—Robert Wilson, 1991