Charles Baudelaire Fleeting Quotations

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.