The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the … - Walter Pater

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Walter Pater

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

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