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Walter Horatio Pater (August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic.
Art comes to you posing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
The love of art for art's sake.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
All art does but consist in the removal of surplus age.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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