"When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen"
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"Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected."
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"The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious."
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"The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you."
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"We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole."
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"There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause."
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"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
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"One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected."
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"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
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"Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better."
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"Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected."
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"Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams."
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"I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way"
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"The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole."
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"To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made."
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"Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain."
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"Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!"
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"If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass."
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