To burn always with this hard gem-like flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Enthusiasm, Success, Passion
How shall we pass most swiftly; from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Success
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Music
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Art
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Books
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Opinions
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
—Walter Pater
Topics: Experience
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