Quotes Tagged With :decadent

Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me.December....

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever....

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

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

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure,....

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

We were decadent in our intimacy. Leaving no inch of skin untouched lest a moment of rapture slip through....

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

With you I feel like I'm already good enough; I only have to believe it. I can't lose you again.” He....

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