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    Toi qui poses ta marque, ô complice subtil, Sur le front du Crésus impitoyable et vil,

    Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère !

    You who put your mark, O subtle accomplice, Upon the brow of Croesus, base and pitiless,

    O Satan, pity my long misery!

    —Charles Baudelaire, Les Litanies de Satan

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