Quote by: Walter Pater

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.


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Author Bio


  • NameWalter Pater
  • DescriptionEssayist,art and literature critic, fiction writer
  • BornAugust 4, 1839
  • DiedJuly 30, 1894
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionArt Historian; Writer; Novelist
  • WorksMarius The Epicurean