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Decadent
The Decadent movement in literature was a short-lived but influential style during the latter half of the 19th century. It is most associated with French literature, and Charles Baudelaire was perhaps the foremost figure of the Decadent movement. Decadent writers used elaborate, stylized language to discuss taboo and often unsavory topics, such as death, depression, and deviant sexualities.
The Decadent movement was born from the Romantic work of poets like Wordsworth. The word Decadent arose in the literary world as a disparaging assessment from critics. As an adjective, with a lowercase d, d ...more
The Decadent movement was born from the Romantic work of poets like Wordsworth. The word Decadent arose in the literary world as a disparaging assessment from critics. As an adjective, with a lowercase d, d ...more
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The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life
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― Xélucha and Others
― Xélucha and Others
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The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.
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― Monsieur de Phocas
― Monsieur de Phocas
