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Quote by Walter Pater
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. -

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

Other quotes by Walter Pater

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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Walter Pater
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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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Experience
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. – Carl Rogers

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Experience

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you cant teach people that – they have to learn by experience. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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Experience

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when theyre also trying to make headway in mainstream of film. – Diablo Cody

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Experience

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. – Italian Proverb

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Experience

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon

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Fate & Destiny

Usually I say I have no imagination. – Jose Padilha

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Imagination

Mans mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. – John Calvin

Category:
God

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously–to love each other, hate each other–but then–it isnt true. It isnt true, we dont care at all! – Ugo Betti

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Pretending