"Just as, out of habit, one consults..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
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“I'm very much a creature of habit.”
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“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”