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Marcel Proust

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Marcel Proust

Nature

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Our habits shape how we see the world so much that they hide the true, original nature beneath them. This original nature lacks the harshness and magic that habits add, making it something we rarely recognize.

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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.