“Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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