The Decadent movement was a late 19th century artistic and literary movement of Western Europe. It flourished in France, but also had devotees in England and throughout Europe, as well as in the United States.
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“Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
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