final belief believe a fiction, know a fiction, nothing else. exquisit — Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

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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, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

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