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I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
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