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And there was one dream common to most young aristocrats of the time. Scions of a declining class which had once possessed
concrete power, but which no longer retained any real hold on the world, they tried to revive symbolically, in the privacy of the bed-chamber, the status for which they were nostalgic: that of the lone and sovereign feudal despot.
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The "evil" which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.
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― Must We Burn Sade?
― Must We Burn Sade?
