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Walter Salles

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WALTER PATER To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more beco...
WALTER PATER And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that i...
WALTER PATER A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in the...
WALTER PATER With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as ...
WALTER PATER In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relati...
WALTER PATER The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle...
WALTER PATER Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that th...
WALTER PATER At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...
WALTER PATER Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to expre...
WALTER PATER Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
WALTER PATER A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, w...
WALTER PATER Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms ...
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