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"Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past."

Adair, Gilbert · Modern and Modernism · 1 fans >>
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"Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God."

Appleyard, Bryan · Modern and Modernism · 1 fans >>
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"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."

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

Baudelaire, Charles · Modern and Modernism · 1 fans >>
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"We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures."

Baudrillard, Jean · Modern and Modernism · 2 fans >>
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"You are born modern, you do not become so."

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"I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume."

Calvino, Italo · Modern and Modernism · 0 fans >>
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Camus, Albert · Modern and Modernism · 2 fans >>
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"A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."

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"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

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