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

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Success
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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

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Beauty
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A few years experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. – George Mason

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Experience

My films dont give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that theyve really been through something. – Andrea Arnold

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Experience

Ive had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Experience

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. – Heinrich Heine

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Experience

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