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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 Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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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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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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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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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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