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The beautiful is always bizarre.

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Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and aston...more

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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, W...more

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.