For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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 shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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