Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable
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A selected quote by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable
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