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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Born: Nov 26, 1909
Died: Mar 28, 1994

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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco
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While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Paul Tillich
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months. Barton Gellman
Time First Princeton Final Astonishment Months Out Find Had Deadline Within First Time George Semester Begun Senior Just Turned Noticed Thesis Four Set University
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. Celia Green
Research Way Astonishment Attack Point Facts Greatest
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed. Felix Dennis
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To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. Gordon Brown
Understanding Stage Assumed Our Everything Astonishment Indeed Some Purely Had Almost Almost All Identity Been Discovery Off Questioned Up Scottish Families Ended Migrant Roots European Origin Search Appeared Now Started
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. Hermann von Helmholtz
Our Astonishment Indeed Fact Individual Taken Practical Arouse Itself Curiosity Us Useful Each Each Individual Applications
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil. Joan Collins
Time Good Me Age Discipline Devil Every Every Time Astonishment About Something Struck Beat Had Written Contemporaries Look Am Article Any Done Being Being Done Certain Certain Age Fortune Certainty Tone
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. Max Lerner
Politics Hope Astonishment Kingdom Through Leads Surprise Gates

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