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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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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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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. Wine is bottled poetry
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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