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   The Meaning of Culture

   John Cowper Powys

   “The art of self-culture begins with a deeper awareness … of the marvel of our being alive at all; alive in a world as startling and mysterious, as lovely and horrible, as the one we live in.”

   Terrific 1929 read on the art of self-culture and the crucial difference between being educated and being cultured:

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