#decay

Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. ↗

— James Joyce

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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

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