Quote by Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habit

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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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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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. – Karl Liebknecht

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If I didnt have children, I think my life would be a failure. – Yann Martel

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