Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without." — Walter Pater
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. — Walter Pater
About Walter Pater
Walter Pater was a Critic from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1839–1894).
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This quote is attributed to Walter Pater, a Critic from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Walter Pater lived from 1839 – 1894.