"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
-Walter Pater
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"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.“
-Walter Pater
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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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"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
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"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
-Anne Frank
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