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The beautiful is always bizarre.

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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold en...more

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To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world...more

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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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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the da...more

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