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| 9510ad4 | Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world of the self. Habit--no matter how intense the suffering it causes--is the last thing the personality will give up... | proust | Howard Moss |