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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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