He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.

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He wrote many letters to Anaïs Nin criticizing her for her surrealistic style as opposed to the realism that was then deemed correct writing and ended by asking for her hand saying he would "teach her to write"[citation needed] which Edmund Wilson took as an insult. Leon Edel New York NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983
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