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  • She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? -- Stendhal
  • The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. -- Loren Eiseley
  • In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. -- G. H. Hardy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Hannah Arendt
  • 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
  • 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. -- Clark Moustakas
  • 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. -- Toni Morrison
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