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Excerpt from Is It True?
It is this Spirit which consecrates the true untruth, the wise foolishness, of fairy tales, and indeed of all imaginative literature.
Nor, I think, will any sensible child mistake the vast difference between imagination and falsehood; between the weaving of a mere ro mance all pretense, all out of my own head, mamma, as a little girl sometimes says, who tells me the most astonishing stories, but who never told an untruth in her life), and that de liberate inventing or falsifying of facts which we stigmatize and abhor as lying.
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