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He who wanders into an Oriental temple and moves about its dusky corridors and greasy shrines, who gazes at its grotesque stone idols illuminated by many little oil lamps, no less than he who sees golden or silver idols brought out to the rattle of drums and the piping of clarionets into the glaring light of day and carried upon painted carriages or within palanquins that rest on long-beamed stretchers, knows that he has wandered into a strange twilight world where charlatanry and sincerity jostle each other at every moment.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 2