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The only end of life

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)

Was born on: 13.11.1850
About Author: Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer

Fool of himself

But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Virginibus Puerisque, Crabbed Age and Youth (1881)

To my mother

You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.

A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

The great affair is to move

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878)

Exploits are often irrational

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

Virginibus Puerisque, Crabbed Age and Youth (1881)

My mistress still the open road

The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

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