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Quote by Marcel Proust
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first,

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. – Marcel Proust

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. – Horace Bushnell

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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. – Chinese Proverb

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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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