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Books.
Namely, poetry and fiction. Like photography and recorded music, they are a reproduction-based manifestation of art. You are meant to enjoy the reproduction as the experience of the art itself.
There is something to be said about visiting a painting or a work of architecture, or going to a live performance, to behold it with your own eyes or hear it as it's created. However, it's awesome to have shelves full of art in my own home that I can manhandle at any time.
Most of these works of art can be had for the cost of a meal, and they can be borrowed free of charge from your local library.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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