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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.Wallace Stevens
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All history is modern history.Wallace Stevens
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.Wallace Stevens
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.Wallace Stevens