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Stolen from Lydia Davis's Intro to Swann's Way

For only in recollection does an experience become fully significant, as we arrange it in a meaningful pattern, and thus the crucial role of our intellect, our imagination, in our perception of the world and our re-creation of it to suit our desires; thus the importance of the role of the artist in transforming reality according to a particular inner vision: the artist escapes the tyranny of time through art.
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Published on December 15, 2015 15:37 Tags: 20th-century, fiction, france, french, history, lydia-davis, pattern, proust, recollection, time