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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.
Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
Spins the heavy world around.
Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life - free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs - than to be artificially [stimulated].
Life: What a party, what a hangover.
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
Decadence is wonderful.
What are the politics of boredom?
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies!
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
slanderous diarrhea of the mouth.
If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
malady of reverie.
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.
Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down.
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
covetousness. But,
exhaustion and the daily rigours of the
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
Covetousnesse breaks the bag.
It's the drunkenness of all the new things that can be.
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.
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.
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication?
Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.
What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
Something different is disclosed in the drunkenness of passion: the landscape of the body ... These landscapes are traversed by paths which lead sexuality into the world of the inorganic. Fashion itself is only another medium enticing it still more deeply into the universe of matter.
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.
There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
The fascination of the abomination.
You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
suppressed hysteria.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
Alcoholism is a Curse
Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge,
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
E began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday".
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.
Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions.
We put the fun in dysfunction.
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.
A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.
gratuitous masturbation
of the
psyche.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ...
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury, even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
something else - nostalgia, or something similar. Dolefulness, maybe?
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments ... is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
The familiar smells of a busy tavern at an hour closer to dawn than dinner. Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke, and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of the civilized nightlife.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing!
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
Decadence begins when men no longer find within themselves a reason to relate their lives to that of others and not when material resources run short.