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Quote by Jean Cocteau
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which hab

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

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. – Jean Cocteau

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

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. – E. M. Cioran

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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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Habit is a great deadener. – Samuel Beckett

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