Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. (Charles Baudelaire)

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

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