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.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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