To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. – Walter Pater
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong