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They insist on looking at the shaded side of life--its brevity and instability, its infirmity and mortality--and then assert that there is no joy, no happiness in it. But the man who has risen into the consciousness of beauty through art finds the clue which can one day lead him to these things.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 105