Quotation by

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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The quote means that for something to be truly modern, it must first go through a phase of being postmodern, which is not a final stage but an early, ongoing condition. This suggests that modern work is always emerging from a continuous process of change and reinterpretation rather than reaching a fixed endpoint.

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