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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change"
Mary Shelley
"The expected is just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives"
Shonda Rhimes
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us"
Joseph Campbell
"The only thing certain about the future is that it will surprise even those who are most prepared for it."
Vinod Khosla
"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear."
Italo Calvino
"Reality is not always probable or likely."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Desire is rooted in the unexpected and the unknown."
Esther Perel
"The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen."
Hannah Arendt
"You never really know how much one single experience is going to impact your entire life."
Jack Nicholson
"The great truth is this that even in Moscow the days sometimes turn out fair and the sunsets are sometimes astonishing."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."
Loretta Young
"Courage is found in unlikely places."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"No matter how absurd it may appear"
William James
"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee, and what we got was a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness, but it was far better."
John Steinbeck
"A lot of the time people don’t even know what they want until they see something new"
Katy Perry
"In Algeria, I had begun to get used to the idea that death could strike without warning"
Jacques Derrida
"There is no knowing where you might be swept off to"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"When you think about it, the most memorable moments in a given film often are scenes that didn't make conventional sense"
Christopher Nolan
"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"This enemy who attacks us at an unknown hour and steals our death when we are not yet detached from life — this enemy is a mouse."
Walter Benjamin
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