#decadence

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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