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I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direct..
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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more i..
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life
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver"
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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?
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
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fear
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I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence ..
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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands;
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love
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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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 with an introduction by Sid Hite |
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He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And ..
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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
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His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main. By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he des..
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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To the Hesitating Purchaser: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold And all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day: -So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper..
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grave
pirates
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That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.
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Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor. 'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.
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We must go on, because we can't turn back.
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strength
growth
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill,
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For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it."
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!
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It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned ..
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An imperturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. 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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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle."
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This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.
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I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it.
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long-john-silver
treasure-island
pirates
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It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound togetherthat in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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I have lost confidence in myself.
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faith
confidence
lost-faith
lost-my-way
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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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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.
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hatred
hate
dr-jekyll
dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
horor
devil
hell
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I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
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