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Sense Quotes by Walter Pater
- In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world,…
- A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an…
- Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which…
- 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…
- That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what…
- 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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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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