• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. contingent
2. transient
3. immovable
4. eternal
5. being

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. by : Charles Baudelaire

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