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Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Women
Secret
Sphinx
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She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
Laini Taylor / Author
Azure
Moved
Sphinx
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Sphinx
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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
Marriage
Decree
Sphinx
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Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
Ruben Dario / Poet
Inward
One Day
Sphinx
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Passion
Secret
Sphinx
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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / Author
Lonely
Rose
Sphinx
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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Saul Steinberg /
Beautiful
Sphinx
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Woman
Only
Beautiful Woman
Woman
Queen
Madonna
Painted
Totem
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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 / Poet
Periods
Riddle
Sphinx
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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Gregory Bateson / Anthropologist
Devoted
Fifty
Professional Life
Riddle
Sphinx
Years
Anthropologist
Professional
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It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Sarah Jessica Parker / Actress
Men
Riddle
Sphinx
Unmarried
Women Men Great
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Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon / Writer
Brain
Sphinx
Trying
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche / Philologist
Truth
Eye
Results
Sphinx
Various
Even
Eyes
Result
Truths
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Country
Reading
Sphinx
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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti / Novelist
Desert
Sphinx
Confronted
Contemporaries
Passed
Pyramid
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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
Gregory Bateson / Anthropologist
Answers
Difficulty
Form
Riddle
Sphinx
Forms
Major
Partly
Product
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Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.
Guy Maddin / Screenwriter
Interesting
Sphinx
Territory
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Guardian
Pyramids
Something New
Sphinx
World New Find
Announce
Belong
Find
Treasures
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The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
P.d. Ouspensky /
Faces
Simple
Sphinx
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Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.
Gustave Le Bon / Social Psychologist
People
Psychology
Sphinx
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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
Gregory Bateson / Anthropologist
Answers
Civilisation
Class
Importance
Riddle
Sphinx
Actual
Systems
Workings
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In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.
Claire Foy / Film Actress
Armour
Circumstances
Cry
Episodes
Imagine
Series
Shut Up
Sphinx
Cope
Develops
Freer
Front
Queen
Shout
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I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this archeology. It was so dry. But I forced myself to read it because it was my first book out of the library. Should have gotten a 'Hardy Boys.'
Keith Hernandez / Baseball Player
Archeology
Dry
Hardy
Sphinx
Card
Egyptians
Figured
Forced
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