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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.”
mboehara Augusto Roa Bastos quotes (Latin American novelist, b.1913)
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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.”
Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)
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“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia quotes
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“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.”
Benito Mussolini quotes (Italian dictator, 1883-1945)
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“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”
Christopher Hampton quotes

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“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
David Sarnoff quotes (Russian born American Inventor pioneer in the development of both radio and television broadcasting. 1891-1971)

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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.”
Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

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