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The strong emotional impression of beauty which a Nature-painted scene can evoke will--if he stays with it and does not too quickly hurry off to other thoughts--take him away from self-consciousness, its narrow confines and severely limited interests. He forgets them, and in the forgetting is released for the time from his ego.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 6 : Nature Appreciation > # 15