“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“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.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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