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When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
Rita Mae Brown
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Cyril Connolly
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
Jane Fonda
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Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
Jesse Metcalfe
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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J. G. Ballard
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
Terence McKenna
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Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.
Siddharth Katragadda
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How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
Wilfrid Sheed