In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

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About Robert Louis Stevenson

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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And yet even while I was exulting in my solitude I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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