It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off— — Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off— — Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off— — Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off— — Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off— — Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
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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.

— Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
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