Marcel Proust
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Morrissey cites Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, Volume II - 1919) at the start of Howard Devoto's band Luxuria's concert on March 13, 1988 at The Town & Country Club, Kentish Town.
Those few steps from the landing to Albertine's door, those few steps which no one now could prevent my taking, I took with delight, with prudence, as though plunged into a new and strange element, as if in going forward I had been gently displacing the liquid stream of happiness, and at the same time with a strange feeling of absolute power (power!), and of entering at length into an inheritance which had belonged to me from all time.
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.