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“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
― Renegade's Magic
― Renegade's Magic
“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
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