"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
- Walter Pater
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"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distin..."
"Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is l..."
"To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. Let us begin with that which is without - our physical life. Fix ..."
"It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively."
"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy is success in life."
"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life."