Quotes about Decadence

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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
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
​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
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
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them. — Livy, The Early History of Rome:
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitut — Charles Bernheimer
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake eve — Jean Lorrain, Le Crime Des Riches (1905): Suivi de Paris Forain
The decadent artist markets other people's pain — Jennifer Birkett
No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be — Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever lovin — Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel