The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know… - Wallace Stevens

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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.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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