Quotes about Decade

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyon — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The western mind makes definitions — it draws lines.
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the w — Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats — E.M. Forster, Howard's End
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much gr — Iwan Goll
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. — J.G. Ballard, The Complete Short Stories
They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It — Charles Baudelaire
Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better — Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
​More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates. — Vineet Raj Kapoor
I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on th — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
We were decadent in our intimacy. Leaving no inch of skin untouched lest a moment of rapture slip through our grasp. Thr — Virginia Alison
Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable mas — Jennifer Birkett
Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondenc — Asti Hustvedt
At the age of 46 I was starting to see the appearance of rainbow halos and starbursts around bright nighttime lights, pr — Steven Magee
Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and ba — Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them. — Livy, The Early History of Rome: