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.
More from Ernest Hemingway
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Permalink to quote #73 Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Permalink to quote #75 About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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