Decadence Quote by Rachilde

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he…

— Heather Massey

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what…

— Wilkie Collins

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man…

— Jack London

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

“There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to…

— Philip Roth