“Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

To be simple is no small matter.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.