“The Anticipation is annihilated by the act”
“Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.”
“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”
“The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.”
“To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.”
“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.”