"...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!"
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"We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction."
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"None are happy but by anticipation of change."
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"Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense."
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"This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art."
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"Fear gone, there can be no hatred."
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"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."
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"Go forward with joyful confidence."
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"I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate."
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"The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure."
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"[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!"
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"Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust."
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"Nothing is so much to be feared as fear."
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"I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation."
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"I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery."
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"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."
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"When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable."
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"...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil."
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"I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
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