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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,
Death in the Afternoon
Posted on March 16, 2001 at 11:46 AM
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