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«The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.»
«Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.»
«Scratch an artist and you surprise a child»
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
altogether, derive, favors, partly, pleasant, surprise, The Pleasure, worthless
«No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.»
«There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
at large, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, fill, hardly, horror, large, sexual, surprise
«Surprise me. [Answering his wife Carmen to the question: If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?]»
Author: Yogi Berra
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| Keywords:
answering, buried, buries, burying, Carmen, Have You, surprise, The Question
«Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
excess, of his own, reader, remembrance, remembrances, singularities, singularity, strike, surprise, wording, wordings
«The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
atom, chemist, compassion, compound, compounding, compounds, elements, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, forgiveness, longing, patience, regret, surprise
«That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
perpetual, surprise
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