Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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About Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry...

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

—George Price

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The only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

—Pema Chödrön

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You wanted to get well.… Asked your greatest wish in life, you would have replied at once—sanity.… In the world outside, people longed desperately to be millionaires, movie actors, club presidents.… But nowhere, nowhere save the madhouse, did mental health get its share of prayers.

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But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

—Philip Ó Ceallaigh

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

—William Dement

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