Quote by Walter Pater
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ec

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

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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. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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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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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Experience
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. – Paul Getty

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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. – Euripides

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Success

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become. – Jim Rohn

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Success

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, theres a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, Hey, wake up! – David Schwimmer

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Success

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1906

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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines –these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. – Henry Miller

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