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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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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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Poetry
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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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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. – Jeanne Moreau

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Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. – Rosalind Russell

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Its the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days youve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. – Craig Ferguson

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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherines beauty and Renees frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. – Colleen Atwood

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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. – John Charles Polanyi

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