"And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring."

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the major works of modern literature. Born in Auteuil near Paris on 1871-07-10, he developed an introspective narrative style that reshaped twentieth-century fiction. He died in Paris on 1922-11-18.

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