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Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

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.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#actually #challenge #full #grow #know

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#enough #good #life #own #poor

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#bright #delicate #good #influence #keep

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#left #married #nothing #once #suicide

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#before #dogs #heaven #i #long

Everyone lives by selling something.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#lives #selling #something

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#friend #i #indispensable #long #love






About Robert Louis Stevenson

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As my mother said "This is the heaviest affliction that has ever befallen me". Short story collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887); contains 6 stories. Stephen in turn would introduce him to a more important friend.

His works have been admired by many other writers including Jorge Luis Borges Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Marcel Schwob Vladimir NabokovJ. A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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