“ Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”
“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
“ The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.”
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