"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
― Walter Pater
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Experience
More From Walter Pater
- "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."
- "Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
- "That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
More In Experience
- "Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience."― Jean-Paul Sartre
- "I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school."― Brittany Snow
- "If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."― Paul Harris