"I hazard the guess that man will be……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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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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The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made…
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty.…
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and…
— W G Sebald
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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of…
— Ezra Pound
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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose…
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Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights…
— James Taranto
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Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live…
— Mike Love
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Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a…
— Edward V. Long
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Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after…
— Richard Dawkins
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The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley…
— Charlaine Harris
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No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse…
— Thomas Ligotti
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