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Updated: May 17, 2025

Engaged in this work, he writes that he still has within him a longing desire to attain to the knowledge of beauty sehnlich wuenschte zur Kenntniss des Schoenen zu gelangen. He had to shorten his nights, sleeping only four hours, to gain time for reading. And here Winckelmann made a step forward in culture. He multiplied his intellectual force by detaching from it all flaccid interests.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry