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

Other quotes by 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

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Failure
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on Madden. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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The amount of meetings Ive been in – people would be shocked. But thats how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow. – Tiger Woods

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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I have three goddaughters – Im not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try. – Diane Kruger

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God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other. – Blaise Pascal

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All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. – Walter B. Wriston

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath

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