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Henry James quote: "She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which..."

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

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Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality... Federico Fellini
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