"From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it."

Wonder, Perception, Meaning, Awareness

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"From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it."

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"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

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"Lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

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"Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?"

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

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"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."

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"Truth is in things, and not in words."

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"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order."

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"All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad."

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"Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness."

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"The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed."

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"At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to remain.I believe that this wise and blessed frame of mind would have continued with me, had it not been for the unsolicited and uncharitable remarks obtruded upon me by my professional friends who visited the rooms. But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous."

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"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."

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