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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOf what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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