To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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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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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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