In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptable. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business -- not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into...rhetoric and plot.
--from "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
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