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The pessimism which Orientals have produced in religion and literature can be accounted for in part by the enervation of a tropical climate and in part by the ennui of a too-ancient history; but there still remains a third part--insight into Life.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 209