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> [I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/i-understood-that-all-the-material-of-a-literary-work-was-in-my-past/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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