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Nothing can hold the experience. It evades his mental grasp, eludes his emotional hold. The Glimpse falls away and cannot be retained. But the minutes or hours during which he was exposed to it will long be associated in memory with a great joy, a grave stillness, and an acute understanding.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 7 : After the Glimpse > # 160