“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
