There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
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"There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" is a phrase by Francis Bacon first published in his aesthetics essay Of Beauty[1].
Poe was fond of quoting it and Charles Baudelaire made it his own in the motto "le beau est toujours bizarre".
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