“[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.”

— Marcel Proust

Of Fauré's Romances sans paroles Op. 17, as quoted in Orledge Gabriel Fauré (1979), p. 48

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French novelist, critic, and essayist 1871–1922

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