According to Max Simon Nordau in his work Degeneration, which of the following best describes the term Fin de Sicle ?

A. The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever

B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user

C. A confession and a complaint

D. All of the above

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