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" To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness... "
Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 60
by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pages
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 19; Volume 82

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 141

1876 - 576 pages
...perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 141

1876 - 606 pages
...perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite...
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Miscellanies, political and literary

sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...ecstasy, is success in life. . Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 pages
...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failurejs to form ' habits : for, after all, habit is relative...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

1895 - 416 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. WALTER PATER. WHO makes the last a pattern for next year Turns no new leaf, but still the same thing...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Songs, hymns and ...

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 500 pages
...Pater, not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Youth is not habit-bound, and " our failure is to form habits ; for after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped "world." So he draws Marius, whose young years accumulate experiences but pass no judgments, and the Child in...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 644 pages
...Pater, not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Youth is not habit-bound, and "our failure is to form habits; for after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world." So he draws Marius, whose young years accumulate experiences but pass no judgments, and the Child in...
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The Works of Walter Pater, Volume 1

Walter Pater - 1900 - 276 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after...any two persons, .things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...hard, gemlike flame, to I maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense ' it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all, habit is relative to a stereo- to typed world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons,...
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