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«For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Foolishness,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
Brains, sake, The Young Man, young man
«To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.»
«All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
Dead language, hearer, prepared, spoken, written language
«Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
clock, frightened, misfortune, pace, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«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.»
«Wine is bottled poetry.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Wine
| Keywords:
bottled, wine bottle
«Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life»
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Cannibalism
| Keywords:
arouses, babies, Buddhist, Buddhists, cannibalism, disgust, feed, feed on, impression, strongly, Vegetarians
«Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.»
«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.»
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