Famous quotes containing the words decay and/or modes:
“The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition,are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”
—Cyril Connolly (19031974)
“my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; oer my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
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