André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
“Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.”
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 14 “Caer Wydyr” (p. 190)
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