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
   
Walter Pater   Name:
Walter Pater
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
English
Birth:
August 4, 1839
Death:
July 30, 1894
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