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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Le beau est toujours bizarre.
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The quote links beauty with strangeness rather than familiarity. It suggests that what feels beautiful often stands out because it is unusual, unexpected, or unlike ordinary things. Beauty, in this view, does not depend on looking conventional or immediately comfortable.
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- Wikisource, scanned 1868 edition of Curiosités esthétiques
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- Official Statement
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