{"quotes":[{"text":"Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["art","artificial","camera","celluloid","collapse","disturing","enigma","fake","family","film","flash","happy","instamatic","kodachrome","kodak","kodak-moment","lens","lie","memory","mystery","nikon","nostalgia","photo","photography","sad","scary","see-through","trapped","wall","zoom"],"id":23400,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["annamaria","enigma","friends","friendship","lovers","odd-thomas"],"id":23938,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["code","czech","decode","enigma","forgetting","history","messages","myth","novel","past","signs","symbols"],"id":23972,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection \u0026 irony. She can lure angels into her arms \u0026 give birth to a nation of ideologies.","author":"Ace Antonio Hall","tags":["angels","beauty","enigma","perfection","woman"],"id":41880,"author_id":"Ace+Antonio+Hall"},{"text":"In every colour there's the light.In every stone sleeps a crystal.Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:Man is the dream of the dolphin.","author":"Enigma","tags":["enigma","music"],"id":53816,"author_id":"Enigma"},{"text":"Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["enigma","mirabellebevan","mystery","sara-sheridan"],"id":61661,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.","author":"Moonshine Noire","tags":["dark","enigma","frustration","lyrical-prose","murky","poetry","sighs","words"],"id":87283,"author_id":"Moonshine+Noire"},{"text":"Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.","author":"David Harvey","tags":["capital","capitalism","enigma","harvey","marx","marxist"],"id":96434,"author_id":"David+Harvey"},{"text":"Don't be afraid to be weakDon't be too proud to be strongJust look into your heart my friendThat will be the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceIf you want, then start to laughIf you must, then start to cryBe yourself don't hideJust believe in destinyDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceTo return to innocenceThat's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocenceDon't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and miss the chanceto return to innocence.","author":"Enigma","tags":["enigma","music"],"id":105777,"author_id":"Enigma"},{"text":"Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["curiosity","depth","enigma","life","misery","mystery","obsecure","outcomes","secrets","suspense","unexplained","unknown","views"],"id":116354,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}