Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent,

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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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Film in the 20th century, its the American art form, like jazz. – Martin Scorsese

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