"Everything excellent limits us momentarily because we feel unable to match up to it; only insofar as we subsequently accept it into our own culture, absorb it as belonging to our own mental and temperamental powers, do we come to love and value it."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833), Elisabeth Stopp, trans. (Penguin: 1998) #348
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