“All beauties, like all possible phenomena, have something of the eternal and something of the ephemeral — of the absolute and the particular.”

—  Charles Baudelaire

Toutes les beautés contiennent, comme tous les phénomènes possibles, quelque chose d'éternel et quelque chose de transitoire — d'absolu et de particulier.
"De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne," Salon de 1846, XVIII (1846) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Salon_de_1846_%28Curiosit%C3%A9s_esth%C3%A9tiques%29#XVIII._.E2.80.94_De_l.E2.80.99h.C3.A9ro.C3.AFsme_de_la_vie_moderne

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

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