Walter Pater Quotes

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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. - Walter Pater quote.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. - Walter Pater quote.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of The Renaissance

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. - Walter Pater quote.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
— Walter Pater

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. - Walter Pater quote.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance

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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. - Walter Pater quote.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Pater Appreciation

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