“Memory: Decalcomaniac romantic vividness.”
About This Quote
<div><br></div>Full quote: "I have retained for seventeen years in my mind with decalcomaniac romantic vividness— though not quite exactly, I confess; memory likes the otsebyatina (“what one contributes oneself”); but the slight discrepancy is now corrected and the act of artistic correction enhances the pang of the Present."
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