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“I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise . . . If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“She would consider each day a miracle — which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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