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So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop to die.
Experience already reduced to a group of impressions is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Quotes By Walter Pater
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To burn always with this hard gem-like flame to maintain this ecstasy is...
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the...
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That sense of a life in natural objects which in most poetry is but a...
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders...
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for...
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Not the fruit of experience but experience itself is the end.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of...
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What is important then is not that the critic should possess a correct...
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art...
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in...
Quotes About Experience
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
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I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do...
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't...
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Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their...
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I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny because when we found out we...
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At our best it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year so there...
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I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an...
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and...
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Well you know the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over...
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The most important training though is to experience life as a writer...