Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Children are certainly too good to be true.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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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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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

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