"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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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.

— Elizabeth Bowen