Quotes about Decadence

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The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some furtherance of Hell ea — Charles Baudelaire
The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,And horrified, my lids drawn tight,I step back to that realm of nightWhere not a s — Alexander Blok, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of it — Jesus I. Aldapuerta, The Eyes: Emetic Fables from the Andalusian de Sade
There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delus — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extr — Medlar Lucan, The Decadent Cookbook
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. — Rémy de Gourmont, The Angels of Perversity
Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If we can have no sec — Willa Cather, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
He asked her, 'Why do you feel sorry for me, Old Woman?'The Old Woman stood beside him and looked out the window at the — Valery Bryusov, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
The Old Woman asked, "Here you are, dear Youth, you are looking at the Garden and do not know that it is an evil Garden. — Valery Bryusov, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent — Jennifer Birkett
The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide — M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others
Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?' 'Forty hours?' — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and eight nights. It was — Théophile Gautier, Clarimonde
Then Chameroy spoke. 'You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much more complicated. — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, o — George Eliot, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibia — Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic p — Jennifer Birkett
In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The wa — Jennifer Birkett
Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual — Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire