Quote by Walter Pater
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgariti

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – 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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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Books,” June 1869

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A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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You have to give people something to dream on. – Jimi Hendrix

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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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A child not suckled by its mother is unfortunate… – Christian Augustus Struve, Asthenology: or, The Art of Preserving Feeble Life, 1

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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