“Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined it as this: a sweet violence, and himself a new Don Juan.”
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Book:The Modern Fairies
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