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PAUL VERLAINE:
"I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds."
Decadent Writers and Characters
George Rodenbach in his Paris apartment, 1890s |
G.Boldini: Comte Robert de Montesquieu, 1897. |
Maxwell Armfield: Faustina, |
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