Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."
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“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“By at the gallop he goes, and then
By he comes back at the gallop again.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Must we to bed indeed? Well then,
Let us arise and go like men,
And face with an undaunted tread
The long black passage up to bed.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)