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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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That the mere matter of a poem, for instance—its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture—the actual c...
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It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modifie...
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For with this desire of physical beauty mingled itself early the fear of death—the fear of death intensified by the desire of beauty.
By Walter Pater
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
By Walter Pater
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
By Walter Pater
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
By Walter Pater