美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity. Wikipedia Born :  August 4, 1839,  Stepney, London, United Kingdom Died :  July 30, 1894,  Oxford, United Kingdom Education :  The Queen's College, Oxford ,  University of Oxford ,  Brasenose College, Oxford Influenced by :  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  Novalis ,  Heraclitus Quotes To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. # OnThisDay  in 1839 Walter Pater was born in London. Pater's infamous 'Conclusion' to his book, Studies in the History of the Renaissan...

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Wikipedia Born :  April 2, 1805,  Odense, Denmark Died :  August 4, 1875,  Østerbro, Denmark Movies :  Frozen ,  Thumbelina ,  The Little Mermaid ,  MORE Short stories :  The Emperor's New Clothes ,  The Snowman ,  MORE Quotes Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Where words fail, music speaks. Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. “His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.”  ―from "The Ugly Duckling" ---- Marilyn Monroe was an Amer...