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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."

"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."

"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter."


"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."


"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."


"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."


"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"


"When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line."
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