Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possi… - Walter Pater

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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.

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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and literary critic.

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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

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