A beautiful quote that a friend sent me several years ago.
We are all condamnés . . .: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve . . .: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among “the children of this world,” in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time (….)
– Walter Pater, “Conclusion,” The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, 1868(1)
Posted on 22 January 2009
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Thanks for the great quote!
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Great quote Nat!
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Thanks for bringing our attention towards this truth of life. The quote is very nicely written and its every word is true.

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