#anticipation

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. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#life #quote #life

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting ↗

— Andy Warhol

#idea

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting. ↗

— Albert Camus

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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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