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 STEVENSONI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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