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"Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist."
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"Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can."
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"I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be."
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"When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach."
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"Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good."
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"Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?"
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"I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't."
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"There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."
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"I always wonder what drives us as Artists."
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"All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves."
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"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."
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"We have a deficit of wonder right now."
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"Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder."
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"To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
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"When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies."
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"I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for."
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"...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity."
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"The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression."
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"I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction."
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