"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
-Walter Pater
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"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.“
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"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
-Walter Pater
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"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."
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"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
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"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."
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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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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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