“their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.”
“They asked him questions he had never thought of: What is more important, the soul or the mind? Are we responsible for each other or only ourselves? Is there such a thing as mystery, or only that which is not yet understood?”
“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”
“Explanations take the mystery out of things, right?”
“The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.”
“Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.”