#decadence

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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