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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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