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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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For my part, 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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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