Walter Pater Quotes
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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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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
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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.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.