Quote by Walter Pater
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixt

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – 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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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

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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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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle

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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. – Richard Armour

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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty. – Rachel Roy

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Beauty and femininity are ageless and cant be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers wont like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour its based on femininity. – Marilyn Monroe

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