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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Curiosity, Conquer, One Thing
Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales”, p.30, Oxford University Press

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Doubt, Matter, Not Sure

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Independent, Men, Hazards
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Father, Son, Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Share, Wanted, Jokes
Robert Louis Stevenson (1904). “Virginibus Puerisque”

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Good Day, Eye, Men
"Treasure Island".

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Talking, Strange, Affair
Robert Louis Stevenson (1994). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, p.30, Collector's Library

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Robert Louis Stevenson
Long, Devil, Roaring
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hair, Jekyll, Faces
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.64, Broadview Press

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Jealousy, War, Naked
Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Brother, Devil, Way
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Sea, Treasure, Glory
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Treasure Island (Illustrated Edition): Adventure Tale of Buccaneers and Buried Gold by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.34, e-artnow

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Memories, Men, Should
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.487, e-artnow

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Voice, Giving, Joy
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.249, e-artnow

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth, Poetic, Great Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.2184, e-artnow

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hate, Writing, I Hate

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Stupidity, Shapes, Jars
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4576, e-artnow

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Art, Pregnancy, Sensual
'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Night, Sky, Tea
1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Life, Winter, Hands
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3716, Delphi Classics

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Children, Army, Forests
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hands, Evil, Identity
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Toes, Young, Pleasant
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.628, e-artnow

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Judging, Importance, Understood
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stonehenge Classics)”, p.42, StoneHenge Classics

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Death, Baby, Buddhist

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