He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.Walter Pater
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.
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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.
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What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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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.
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All art does but consist in the removal of surplus age.
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