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Decadence
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(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express in thought that which is most ineffable, and in form the vaguest and most fleeting contours; listening that it may translate them to the subtle confidences of the neuropath, to the avowals of aging and depraved passion, and to the singular hallucinations of the fixed idea verging on madness... In opposition to the classic style, i
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― Charles Baudelaire and His Life
― Charles Baudelaire and His Life
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I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
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― Peach Blossom Pavilion
― Peach Blossom Pavilion
