Ernest Hemingway: Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term — Ernest Hemingway

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.

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All things truly wicked start from an innocence. — Ernest Hemingway
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that — Ernest Hemingway
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted — Ernest Hemingway
You never understand anybody that loves you. — Ernest Hemingway
Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was — William Shakespeare
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this — that while we f — Francis Bacon
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship ; and it seems hard to justify a — George Bernard Shaw
I am convinced that degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for — Albert Einstein
Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for bein — Albert Camus
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a h — Isaac Watts
Labor is often the father of pleasure. — Voltaire
When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the sec — Kabir