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“I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”
“Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.”
“He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.”
“... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, w...”
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.”
“Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.”
“It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I ...”
“...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation,...”
“And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.”
“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hu...”
“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, ...”
“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply beca...”
“To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.”
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
“Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.”
“I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.”
“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in the...”
“He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this momen...”
“I wish to go down under the waters—the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening s...”
