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I go to the cinema partly to get the opposition which will in a mild but varied form test my ascetic indifference towards earthly attractions and partly to get vivid instruction in their deceptiveness and vanity. The very scenes which excite the sensuality of most beholders, I use, by a process of keen intellectual analysis, to excite my repulsion. Finally, I also go to the cinema simply to enjoy myself with comedies and laugh over them.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 254