Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

- Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity | Transitory | Fugitive | Contingent | Eternal |

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