"Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met."

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Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Valley of Horses (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Two”, p.543, Bantam

Jean M. Auel

#Mysterious Quotes #Honest Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
“Let me go!â€ I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. â€œI canâ€™t,â€ he says.”
“My father was an extraordinary man.”
“Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.”
“I'm a common-sense kind of guy.”
“Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.”
“I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.”
“Iraq's government is at a stalemate.”

Source : "Federalism, Not Partition" by Mowaffak al-Rubaie, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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