The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,--luxury, scepticism, weariness and supe
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and
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You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do n
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come peace or war, the progress of America and Europe
Becomes a long process of deterioration--
Becomes a long process of deterioration--
In frolics dispose your pounds, shillings, and pence,
For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence. ...
For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence. ...
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more
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A city built upon mud;
A culture built upon profit; ...
A culture built upon profit; ...
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