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" Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Play
Fiction
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" Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. "
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" When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. "
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" So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. "
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" There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. "
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" The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "
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" The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. "
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" You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. "
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" To forget oneself is to be happy. "
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" 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. "
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" We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. "
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" When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. "
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" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "
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" To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. "
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" You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. "
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" For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. "
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" 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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