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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

~Walter Pater

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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

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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.

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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

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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 moments' sake.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: August 4th, 1839

Died: July 30th, 1894

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