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The bittersweet savour of life in the body, its joy mingled with suffering, its great moments marred by their shortness, is well understood by the older thinkers and mystics of the East but less by their younger descendants of today.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 288