Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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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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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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