Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

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Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

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