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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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