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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

~ Walter Pater

Activity Age Culture Different Forms Intellectual Make Make Up Most Move Part Roads Together Up Various Which

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

~ Walter Pater

Always Burn Ecstasy Flame Hard Life Maintain Success

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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.

~ Walter Pater

All Things Become Fashions Modern Modes More More And More Principles Regard Tendency Things Thought

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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

~ Walter Pater

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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

~ Walter Pater

About Awful Brevity Desperate Effort Experience Gathering Hardly Make Our See Sense Shall Theories Things Time Touch

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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

~ Walter Pater

Becomes How Life Me Myself Ours Pass Question Sad Short Sometimes Strikes Thing Though Time

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Walter Pater

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04 August, 1839

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30 July, 1894

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