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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about magic

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about mind, man

Woman absent is woman dead.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about woman, absent

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about writers

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about real estate, contentment

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about career, world, life

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses.

Quote by Walter Pater about numbers, life

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Quote by Walter Pater about family, poetry, common sense, sense, things

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Quote by Walter Pater about art, music, magic

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quote by Walter Pater about age, art, magic, olderness

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about art, philosophy, action, pleasure, poetry, life, magic, world

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Quote by Walter Pater about art, quality, magic, nothing, contentment

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, objects, reality, action

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative, and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, experience, human imperfections

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.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, personality, voice, real estate

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Quote by Walter Pater about art, quality, magic, nothing, contentment

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, grace, human imperfections, life

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Quote by Walter Pater about pasion, activity, sadness, common sense, sense, love, life

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in...

Quote by Walter Pater about concentration, force, present, numbers, success, life

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.

Quote by Walter Pater about absent, habits, people, failure, common sense, sense, things, world