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Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Proust
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

Proust
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Proust
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Waiting for Godot
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Mrs. Dalloway
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

The Road
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity
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