Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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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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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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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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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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