Quote by Walter Pater
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed r

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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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

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Failure
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. – 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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I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience. – Cathy Guisewite

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You experience the films through the actors, so theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. – Danny Boyle

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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul

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I go by instinct – I dont worry about experience. – Barbra Streisand

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