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Crumbs

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Woody Allen
Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

"Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything."

Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust Novelist

"No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Crumbs

"Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!"

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