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In literary and dramatic works which rise to the higher planes of thought, creation, imagination or aspiration, there may be moments when some among the readers or audience are carried to experiences where the ordinary self is dropped and a nobler one takes over; where a rare peace holds the mind or ecstatic beauty suffuses the feelings, not for long perhaps but to be long remembered.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 38