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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. -

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

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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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Walter Pater
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Books
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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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Beauty
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think thats ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience. – Michael Haneke

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Experience

Im not one aspect of the human experience – none of us is. – Jennifer Aniston

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Experience

Certainly Ive had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. – John Hawkes

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