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Why should culture be abandoned at the bidding of a harsh, anti-intellectual, anti-aesthetic asceticism? It need not be so. One can become spiritual, detached, and even enlightened without depriving oneself of those enrichments of mind and heart which culture can bring.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 38