"Toutes les beautés contiennent, comme tous les phénomènes possibles, quelque chose d'éternel et quelque chose de transitoire — d'absolu et de particulier."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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All beauties, like all possible phenomena, have something of the eternal and something of the ephemeral — of the absolute and the particular. — "De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne," Salon de 1846, XVIII (1846)