Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond … - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism.

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Alternative Names: Robert Luis Stivensoni • Shih-ti-wen-sheng • Stivenson • Robert Loui Sitivensin • Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson • Robert Lui Stivenson • RL Stivenson • RL Stevenson • RLS • R. L. Stevenson • Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

تحت السماء الواسعة المرصعة بالنجوم
احفر لي قبرا، ودعني أرقد.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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