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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
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