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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met"
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Marguerite Duras
between April 4, 1914 and March 3, 1996. He/she was a famous
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