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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.

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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