We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it … - Walter Pater

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Anti-democracy. . . is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

Walter Pater

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

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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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