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Large cities are also large concentrations of all that is bad in human nature. Whether by falling into temptation or by picking up psychic infection, men are always exposed to moral degeneration in such cities. This is why so many mystics and most ascetics have refused to live in them.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 6 : The Profane and The Profound > # 164