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Travelling in a taxi down Rome's Via Veneto and remembering "this is my hour," I had little difficulty in entering the silent place of the Mind--despite that celebrated thoroughfare's car-filled road and thronged sidewalks. I do not recommend such a place for such a purpose--there are better ones--but modern life being what it is, it is needful to learn how to defeat the world.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 3 : Encounter With Destiny > # 56