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A Philosophy of Love: the Self and the Scented

“Does my heart move because I love someone who is an absolute singularity, or because I love the way someone is?”–Jacques Derrida …

And suddenly the memory returns: Marcel Proust

Perfumers love Marcel Proust.  The “episode of the madeleine” is the most famous passage from his multi-volume masterpiece, “À la recherche du …

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