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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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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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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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