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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Stevenson was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".

✵ 13. November 1850 – 3. December 1894  •  Other names Robert L. Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“Time passes quickly with lovers.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Pavilion on the Links

The Pavilion on the Links, ch. V.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Rajah's Diamond

The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)