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Ernest Hemingway : 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 or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. #Decadence

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Ernest Hemingway: "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 or which seems to differ from their moral concepts." #Decadence

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Cyril Connolly: "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." #Decadence

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Socrates : "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." #Decadence

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Florence Nightingale: "There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. The stimulus, the training, the time, are all three wanting to us; or, in other words, the means and inducements are not there. Look at the poor lives we lead. It is a wonder that we are so good as we are, not that we are so bad. In looking round we are struck with the power of the organisations we see, not with their want of power. Now and then, it is true, we are conscious that there is an inferior organisation, but, in general, just the contrary." #Decadence

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Rainer Maria Rilke: "Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism." #Decadence

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Charles Evans Hughes: "No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. .. The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope!" #Decadence

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Simone De Beauvoir: "The failure described in Being and Nothingness is definitive, but it is also ambiguous. Man, Sartre tells us, is “a being who makes himself a lack of being in order that there might be being.” That means, first of all, that his passion is not inflicted upon him from without. He chooses it. It is his very being and, as such, does not imply the idea of unhappiness. If this choice is considered as useless, it is because there exists no absolute value before the passion of man, outside of it, in relation to which one might distinguish the useless from the useful. The word “useful” has not yet received a meaning on the level of description where Being and Nothingness is situated. It can be defined only in the human world established by man’s projects and the ends he sets up. In the original helplessness from which man surges up, nothing is useful, nothing is useless. It must therefore be understood that the passion to which man has acquiesced finds no external justification. No outside appeal, no objective necessity permits of its being called useful. It has no reason to will itself. But this does not mean that it can not justify itself, that it can not give itself reasons for being that it does not have. And indeed Sartre tells us that man makes himself this lack of being in order that there might be being. The term in order that clearly indicates an intentionality. It is not in vain that man nullifies being. Thanks to him, being is disclosed and he desires this disclosure. There is an original type of attachment to being which is not the relationship “wanting to be” but rather “wanting to disclose being.” Now, here there is not failure, but rather success." #Decadence

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Julian S Huxley: "Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience." #Decadence

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John Adams: "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society." #Decadence

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Yiddish Proverb: "A wise man hears one word and understands two." #Decadence

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Ernest Hemingway: "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." #Alcohol and Alcoholism

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Ernest Hemingway: "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end" #Purpose

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Ernest Hemingway: "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places." #Adversity

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Ernest Hemingway: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." #Writers and Writing

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Ernest Hemingway: "Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games." #Money

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Ernest Hemingway: "When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature." #Fiction

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Ernest Hemingway: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." #Happiness

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Ernest Hemingway: "Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you." #Dance and Dancing

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Ernest Hemingway: "The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits." #Engagement

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Ernest Hemingway: "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." #Uncategorised

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