Quotes Tagged With :decadent

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident,....

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction;....

The decadent artist markets other people's pain

Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?'....

Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?”Thrown by the questions, she opened her eyes. Why would he....

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions....

The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption....

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes....

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered....