"The Universal Exhibition of 1855 [Exposition Universelle de 1855]," sec. 1 (1855) [tr. Charvet (1972)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations
Beauty always has an element of strangeness. I do not mean a deliberate cold form of strangeness, for in that case it would be a monstrous thing that had jumped the rails of life. But I do mean that it always contains a certain degree of strangeness, of simple, unintended,…
