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The quote says that fiction is important because it helps people understand life. It treats both books and dreams as ways of shaping how the world is seen and what it means. The point is that imagination is not separate from reality, but part of how meaning is made.
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Source
A Plea For Eros (2012)
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The phrase appears in the book "A Plea For Eros (2012)" by Siri Hustvedt (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Siri Hustvedt
American novelist and essayist
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist known for her wide-ranging prose across fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of nonfiction. Her books include The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, A Plea for Eros, The Sorrows of an American, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, The Summer Without Men, Living, Thinking, Looking, The Blazing World, Memories of the Future, and Ghost Stories. What I Loved is the book for which she is best known, and What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
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