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Mais surtout, il entend agir pour que tous les Quebecois beneficient d'une societe juste et equitable qui s'inscrit dans le courant de modernite.
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While Helen enjoys this immortality, and is the ideal of beauty upon earth, it is curious to reflect on the _modernite_ of her story, the oldest of the love stories of the world.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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That, under certain conditions of light and shade, what is ugly in fact may in its effect become beautiful, is true; and this, indeed, is the real modernite of art: but these conditions are exactly what we cannot be always sure of, as we stroll down Piccadilly in the glaring vulgarity of the noonday, or lounge in the park with a foolish sunset as a background.
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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Poe, Stein, Warhol: figures de la modernite esthetique. (
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