Ninon de L'Enclos (1620–1705) French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts
Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
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“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
Variant: The Beautiful is always strange.
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