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Wallace Stevens Quotes: The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
         

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.


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