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Robert Louis Stevenson /ˈɹɒbət ˈluɪs ˈstiːvənsən/, né le 13 novembre 1850 à Édimbourg et mort le 3 décembre 1894 à Vailima , est un écrivain écossais et un grand voyageur, célèbre pour son roman L'Île au trésor , pour sa nouvelle L'Étrange Cas du docteur Jekyll et de M. Hyde et pour son récit Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes .

Stevenson est parfois considéré comme un auteur de romans d'aventures ou de récits fantastiques pour adolescents, mais son œuvre a une tout autre dimension : il est d'ailleurs salué avec enthousiasme par les plus grands de ses contemporains et de ses successeurs. Ses nouvelles et romans manifestent en effet une profonde intelligence de la narration, de ses moyens et de ses effets. Il exploite tous les ressorts du récit comme la multiplication des narrateurs et des points de vue, et pratique en même temps une écriture très visuelle[réf. souhaitée], propice aux scènes particulièrement frappantes. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. novembre 1850 – 3. décembre 1894   •   Autres noms Robert L. Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson‎‎: Citations en anglais

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.”

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A Gossip on Romance http://pages.prodigy.net/rogers99/rls_gossip_on_romance.html, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).

“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Underwoods

Bk. I, To a Gardener.
Underwoods (1887)

“By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”

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316.
Aes Triplex (1878)
Variante: Even if the doctor does not give a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

“There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. … They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

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'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8026833953, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)

“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

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

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fsomb10.txt (1882).

“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

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

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”

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314.
Aes Triplex (1878)

“Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”

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Weir of Hermiston http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/weirh10.txt (1896).

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subjects is to do them well; therefore, please to remember this is an apology. It is certain that much may be judiciously argued in favour of diligence; only there is something to be said against it, and that is what, on the present occasion, I have to say.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

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Truth of Intercourse.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Underwoods

Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Underwoods (1887)

“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”

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Old Mortality (1884).

“The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

The Cow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878).

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