Jean-Philippe Toussaint said this quote

“ For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying. ”

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Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint