To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain thi... - Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
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"It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves."