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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Would Be, Ugly
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.88, Vintage
After all, what would be beautiful if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: I am ugly?.