Marcel Proust
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Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the seamy side of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death? ✨ Marcel Proust (2010). In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way, p.96, Random House

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