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 STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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