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Walter Pater
Walter Pater
English Critic
Born: Aug 4, 1839
Died: Jul 30, 1894
Art Beauty Experience Life Sense Which
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Walter Pater
Life Success Flame Maintain Ecstasy Always Burn Hard
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. Walter Pater
Music Art Constantly Towards Condition
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
Experience Personality Group Way Only Voice Through Pierced Without Reduced Real Impressions Wall Which Us Conjecture Each Round Thick Each One Ever
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. Walter Pater
Great Rather Renaissance Achieved Century Fifteenth Then Many Things Designed
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? Walter Pater
Life Seen Pulses Dramatic See Finest Given Only Counted How May Senses Them Us Number
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
Religion Made Christianity Complete Ancient Reconcile Some Attempt Scholars Renaissance Without Italian Account Greece Century Fifteenth Notice Certain
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. Walter Pater
Art Age Everything Religious Object Impassioned Ardent Pursuit Had Which Century Fifteenth Serious Ad Consecrated
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
Together Age Culture Various Part Roads Most Make Make Up Intellectual Up Move Different Which Forms Activity
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
Thought Become All Things More More And More Tendency Principles Modern Regard Modes Fashions Things
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Walter Pater
Experience Reality First Action Sight Pressing Ourselves Out Thousand Seems Objects Sharp Calling Bury Forms Us Flood External
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
Failure World Sense Our Relative Alike Eye Seem Only Habit Habits Makes Said Situations Form After Might Persons Meantime Even Things Two
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
Time Experience Desperate Sense Gathering Our See About Touch Shall Splendour Make Effort Brevity Theories Awful Hardly Things
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
Love Beautiful Wisdom Art Book Most Beautiful Passion Beauty Own Sense Poetic He Most Him Passages Sake Confessions Sixth Where Literary Awakening Desire
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
Sad Life Time Myself Me Sometimes Strikes Though Ours Becomes Pass How Question Short Thing

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