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“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“The two great things yet to be discovered are theseThe Art of rejuvenating old age in men, & oldageifying youth in books.Who in the name of the trunk-makers would think of reading Old Burton were his book published for the first to day.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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