Anticipation

Perhaps life needs to be deciphered like a cryptogram. Secret staircases, frames from which the paintings quickly slip aside and vanish (giving way to an archeangel bearing a sword or to those who must forever advance), buttons which must be indirectly pressed to make an entire room move sideways or vertically, or immediately change all of its furnishings; we may imagine the mind’s greatest adventure as a journey of this sort to the paradise of pitfalls.
--Andre Breton