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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#brute force #force #lasts #made #nothing

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#last #old #our #young

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#consequences #down #everyone #later #sits

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#come #crying #house #love #many

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#friends #readiest #suppressed #truth #weapon

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#happy #i #kings #number #should

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#fellowship #made #more #perfect #quiet

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#change #changes #does #essence #everything






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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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