“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

— Salvador Dalí

Quote from Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small, Roger Rothman, 2012 UNP-Nebraska.
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Spanish artist 1904–1989

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