Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; i… - Charles Baudelaire

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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.

Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, critic and translator.

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Alternative Names: Baudelaire • Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs • Charles Pierre Baudelaire • Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Am căutat uitarea-n iubire: ce folos!
Căci dragostea mi-e numai un pat cu spini, făcut
Să dea acestor fete cumplite de băut!

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

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