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“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.” quote by Walter Pater — Download Open image

“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”

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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?

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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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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those…

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Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some…

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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 on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into…

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A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite…

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“The younger, certainly, had to the full that charm of a constitutional freshness of aspect which may defy for a long time extravagant or erring habits of life; a physiognomy healthy-looking, cleanly, and firm, which seemed unassociable with any form of self-tormenting, and made one think of the nozzle of some young hound or roe, such as human beings invariably…

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the…

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“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty…

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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,…

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It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

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