"O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones."

-- Stephane Mallarme

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“A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.”
“Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.”
“We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.”
“I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.”
“The things I do for love.”
“Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.”
“Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.”
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.”

Source : 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.926, e-artnow

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