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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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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 not yet understand.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
The complete short stories (2001) -
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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