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The artistic experience provides something of a foretaste of the philosophic one; there is something of the mystical glimpse in it, too: but because it depends on an outer stimulant, it passes after a while and leaves the experiencer bereft. But it refines and exalts feeling.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 77