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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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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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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If someone is making a judgment when they dont have firsthand experience, its intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you dont know about? – Beck

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My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys. – Ann Romney

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. – Eric Butterworth

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Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldnt be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. – Scott Weiland

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The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

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