Quote by Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a c

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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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – 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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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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I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. – Dita Von Teese

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Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. – John Masefield

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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust

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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. – Leni Riefenstahl

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