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Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Junichiro Tanizaki
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: July 24
Died: 1965
Died: July 30
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