It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
The perfection of rottenness.
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?
The rottenness comes from within.
The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness