"Books are good enough in their own way,……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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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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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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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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More Bloodless Quotes
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
— Virginia Woolf
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it…
— Oswald Chambers
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Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act…
— Sting
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Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what…
— Tom Peters
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No adultery is bloodless.
— Natalia Ginzburg
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All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least…
— Matt Taibbi
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One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
— Will Durant
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If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers…
— Alexander Pope
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For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself…
— Aimee Mann
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