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Walter Pater

"Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics."

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Walter Pater

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“Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?”
“All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living”
“When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!”
“At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”
“I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.”
“Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?”
“People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.”

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