Marcel Proust
novelist · Paris, France · 1871–1922
Frail from childhood, from about forty he shut himself in a cork-lined room and, until he died, wrote one long novel in search of lost time.
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1913 · The moment he put a piece of cake soaked in tea into his mouth
And all at once the memory appeared to me. That taste was the taste of the little piece of madeleine …
Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine …
In Search of Lost Time, vol. 1, Swann's Way
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