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Denying the Objects of Life
Against the Night, Charles Colson, p.56
Denying the Objects of Life
Against the Night, Charles Colson, p.56
Social critic Russell Kirk has defined decadence as the loss of an aim or object in life. "Men and women become decadent when they forget or deny the objects of life, and so fritter away their years in trifles or debauchery."
