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  • …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

    Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.26, Conari Press
  • There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

    Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.150, Canongate Books
  • In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

    G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.113, Cambridge University Press
  • In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

    Art   Men   Order  
  • She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

    Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.73, Stendhal
  • The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

    Suicide   Years   Dying  
    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

    Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications
  • Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

  • The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

    Artist   Musician   Poet  
    Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.113, Library of America
  • We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.327, Modern Library
  • A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.

    Grief   Support   Joy  
  • It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

  • I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

    Source: www.justjared.com
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