"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions,……" — 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 real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without."

— Walter Pater

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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…

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"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions,……" — Walter Pater

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