Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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 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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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I 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.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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