#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 each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.


Charles Baudelaire


#devil #horror #horror

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep


Alfred de Musset


#decadent #god #life #beauty

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.


Paul Verlaine


#decadence #empire #end #i #i am

Decadence is wonderful.


Jack L. Chalker


#wonderful

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.


David Sarnoff


#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Everyone is always proclaiming the decline of civilization, but it takes a true prophet to look into his wine glass and embody it.


Bauvard


#decadence #funny #humor #prophets #funny

I am the last reflection of the hero. Laurels are out of fashion, so my decadence is showered with champagne.


Bauvard


#funny #heroes #humor #funny

Bully the jade, and she will love you. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")


Bernard Capes


#decadence #decadent #decadents #love

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.


Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly


#death #decadence #dissolution #life #death

Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.


Remy de Gourmont


#life #mankind #courage