Vol. 31 No. 3 1964 - page 457

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It is easier to endure than to change.
The truth is always something told, not something known.
If
there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about
anything. There would only be what is....
The most exacting forms of spirituality are usually found among
heretics....
Being shocked is the dullard's substitute for the pleasures of the
imagination. . . .
Dreams are the poetry, disease the prose of the imagination....
Ritual is that way of performing an act which guarantees the
need of doing it again....
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Another of the author's means of warning us that we are to take her
intentions presentationally, not representationally-for what they are,
not for what they seem to be-is her internationalism. The book avoids
taking place anywhere save in a France and a Paris of the imagination
(the Cafe de Flore is never named); its hero (a figure, a function, far
more than a personality) is playfully named Hippolyte, and the members
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