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 HemingwaySome lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
Ernest HemingwayI don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway