Walter Pater Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

  Walter Pater

  Book, World, Vulgarity

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  Walter Pater

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.155, Courier Corporation

• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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