asceticism quotes

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
  'America the Beautiful', in Commentary, Sep.

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