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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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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. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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Walter Pater
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Poetry
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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