by surprise
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.