#astonishment

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

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Astonishment is the root of philosophy. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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