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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.
~ Walter Pater
Conjecture
Each
Each One
Ever
Experience
Group
Impressions
Only
Personality
Pierced
Real
Reduced
Round
Thick
Through
Us
Voice
Wall
Way
Which
Without
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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.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Frankly
Give
Highest
Moments
Nothing
Pass
Proposing
Quality
Sake
Simply
Those
You
Your
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
~ Walter Pater
Activity
Disinterested
Ecstasy
Enthusiastic
Forms
Give
Great
Life
Love
Many
May
Naturally
Otherwise
Passions
Sense
Sorrow
Us
Various
Which
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
~ Walter Pater
After
Alike
Even
Eye
Failure
Form
Habit
Habits
Makes
Meantime
Might
Only
Our
Persons
Relative
Said
Seem
Sense
Situations
Things
Two
World
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
~ Walter Pater
Abstract
Art
Attempts
Beauty
Been
Define
Express
Find
Formula
General
Made
Many
Most
Poetry
Some
Terms
Universal
Writers
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
~ Walter Pater
Account
Ancient
Attempt
Century
Certain
Christianity
Complete
Greece
Italian
Made
Notice
Reconcile
Religion
Renaissance
Scholars
Some
Without
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
~ Walter Pater
End
Experience
Fruit
Itself
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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 on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
~ Walter Pater
About
Attitude
Before
Day
Discriminate
Dividing
Evening
Every
Frost
Gifts
Moment
Passionate
Short
Sleep
Some
Sun
Those
Tragic
Us
Very
Ways
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Awakening
Beautiful
Beauty
Book
Confessions
Desire
He
Him
Literary
Love
Most
Most Beautiful
Own
Passages
Passion
Poetic
Sake
Sense
Sixth
Where
Wisdom
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
~ Walter Pater
Criticism
Gather
Help
Ideas
Instruments
May
Might
Otherwise
Pass
Philosophical
Points
Theories
Up
Us
View
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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.
~ Walter Pater
Art
Beauty
Been
Between
Discriminate
Discussions
Done
Enjoy
Excellence
Excellent
Has-Been
Help
Less
Like
Little
Meaning
More
Otherwise
Poetry
Precise
Than
Them
Us
Use
Very
Well
Well Done
Words
Would
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
~ Walter Pater
Almost
Artifice
Assertion
Fact
Him
Life
Literal
Most
Natural
Objects
Poetry
Rhetorical
Sense
Then
Which
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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.
~ Walter Pater
Achieved
Century
Designed
Great
Many
Rather
Renaissance
Then
Things
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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.
~ Walter Pater
Constant
Culture
Eager
Human
Human Spirit
Life
Observation
Philosophy
Service
Speculative
Spirit
Startle
Towards
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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
Abstract
Beautiful
Beauty
Being
Certain
Correct
Critic
Deeply
Definition
Important
Intellect
Kind
Moved
Objects
Possess
Power
Presence
Should
Temperament
Then
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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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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
~ Walter Raleigh
Climb
Fain
Fall
Fear
Would
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