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Decadence
Decadence :
A
state
of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
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Cyril Connolly:
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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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# Skepticism
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Ernest Hemingway:
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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 or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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# Critics and Criticism
# Words
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D H Lawrence:
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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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# Vision
# Civilization
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Giambattista Vico:
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
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# Age and Aging
# Necessity
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