131 Quotes About Decadence
- Author Laura Gentile
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The widower glanced at her wedding ring and contemplated a solitary life with his son, but then the mayhem of his marital allegiance resurfaced, and he decided not to betray her.
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- Author Iwan Goll
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Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
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- Author J.G. Ballard
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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
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- Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Society inures us to acts of immorality and decadence. We passively accept violence and exploitation as part of the cultural normative. When the Wall Street Kings crashed their money mobile, Congress was quick to pass bailout bills. How many of these same Congressmen and Wall Street millionaires do you think ever reached into their pocket to buy a homeless person a sandwich?
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- Author Mario Praz
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The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.
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- Author Lebo Grand
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Sensuality is the new luxury.
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- Author Laura Gentile
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While his parents never stopped being enigmas to him, Estefania's physicality felt graspable to him, a promise that would not withdraw itself. In Estefania, he saw a world to be painted.
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- Author Gabriele D'Annunzio
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The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress. The vision of the laden barge, the pale island, the flowery meadow returned to her loving spirit along with the Creator's words: 'This is my body...Take and eat...
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