“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
Author: Walter Pater
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“No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Category: religion
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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
Author: Walter Pater
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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Category: art
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“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Category: poetry
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