Ernest Hemingway - Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term ...

Ernest Hemingway Zitate

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Dekadenz ist ein schwer zu verwendendes Wort, da es kaum mehr als ein Missbrauchsbegriff geworden ist, den Kritiker auf etwas anwenden, das sie noch nicht verstehen oder das sich von ihren Wertvorstellungen zu unterscheiden scheint.

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