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Blunt speech and plain writing have their place too, along with flowery prose and poetic colour; but in this matter of secret paths and unfamiliar quests and higher states of consciousness, they are even more indispensable than symbolic terms, metaphoric phrases, or enigmatic sentences.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 2 : Philosophy and Contemporary Culture > # 12