#bewildering

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering. ↗

— Owen Arthur

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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

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