An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone 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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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