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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
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