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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresse

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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Art
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Charles Baudelaire
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. – Aesop

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. – Johann von Goethe

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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The original is unfaithful to the translation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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