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Charles Baudelaire Quote: 'Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, ...'

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Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
Said Nursi
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.


Clive Bell
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.


Will Durant
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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.


Spalding Gray
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man
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A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.


Craig Brown
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I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
Stacey D'Erasmo
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.


Jack Gould
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.


Theodor Adorno
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Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.


Michael Ende
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I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.
Susan Olsen
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Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Gordon W. Allport
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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
Rabih Alameddine
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.


Ulrich Beck
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Giacomo Leopardi
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I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
Tunde Adebimpe
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?


Jean Giraudoux
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I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.


Olly Murs
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.


David Foster Wallace
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