"There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation."

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But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

— Aldous Huxley