131 Quotes About Decadence
- Author Laura Gentile
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They would chase the image rising from death, expect it, but then enter an empty room with a shrine of deadened memorabilia that made them lose their minds.
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- Author Laura Gentile
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The triumph for Cameliano was that he found his truth of Estefania by disregarding hers, which had always been an established fact. But she deliberately embraced his intentions to cover it up.
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.
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- Author Mae West
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
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- Author Date Masamune
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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- Author Laura Gentile
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They possessed a peaceful relic to set their child free, and the simulacrum they had fed would fade away.
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- Author Laura Gentile
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Marcelian Piaffus adored the heirloom's macabre biography, she could tell. Strangely enough, he had a disregard for its severity despite his beliefs, especially in the hands of a child, and even though Estefania had always been aware that darkness could latch itself onto objects, having grown up among unspeakable atrocities, she decided her daughter had too much grit to decline into madness.
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- Author Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
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I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin... and I too, of course can no longer live. But for some reason this gives me pleasure, a terrible amount of pleasure to imagine so the one I love: earlier I imagined grandmother and then my fiance in this manner, even my favorite animals, Sparky our cat with the fiery bursts of red on his gray-black fur.("Thirty-Three Abominations")
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- Author Compton Mackenzie
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Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
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