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One Quotes by Walter Pater
- Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no…
- Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces…
- One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the…
- To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
- In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the…
- A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and…
- It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
- With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and…
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