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It is the business of an artist, poet, or writer (of the more serious kind) to lift a man out of himself, his little ego, by presenting beauty, truth, or goodness so attractively that the man is drawn and held by it to the point mentioned--of forgetting himself.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 138