"The way to perfection is through a series…" — Walter Pater
"The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts"
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45 Quotes by Walter Pater
Walter Pater has 45 quotes on this site.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
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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, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall…
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More Disgusting Quotes
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one of 486 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
— Hannah Arendt
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
— Charles Baudelaire
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting…
— Martha Beck
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
— Walter Benjamin
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It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own…
— Kobe Bryant
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words…
— Margaret Cho
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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