Quotes by Walter Pater

"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
— Walter Pater
"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 distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it."
— Walter Pater
"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world."
— Walter Pater
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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book...