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Critic Inspirational Quotes (4995)

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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.
Walter Pater
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
George Jean Nathan
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
Walter Pater
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
Walter Pater
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Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
Walter Pater
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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.
Walter Pater
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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
Cornel West
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Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.
Walter Pater
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Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.
Walter Pater
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All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression they inhere in and completely saturate each other.
Walter Pater
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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.
Walter Pater
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I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
John Green
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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
Henry Louis Gates
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Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.
John Green
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Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
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Avoid all haste calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
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Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
Alphonse Karr
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I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
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One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
Alphonse Karr
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Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Alphonse Karr
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