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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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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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Ive stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. – Robert Plant

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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

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It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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