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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. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "
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" I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. "
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" 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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" To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. "
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" It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "
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" Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. "
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" I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. "
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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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" Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. "
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" You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. "
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" I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. "
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" He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. "
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" If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. "
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