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To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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Forgetfulness
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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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 a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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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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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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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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