"A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again."

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Source : Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

Walter Pater

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