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Walter Pater Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Born: Aug 4, 1839
  • Died: Jul 30, 1894

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.