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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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You can kill the body but not the spirit.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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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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