"A work can become modern only if it……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
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627 Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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