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Four years after its magazine debut, the “Suicide Club” stories would be gathered with “The Rajah’s Diamond” (the further adventures of Florizel and Geraldine, which completed the London series) and four other Stevenson tales into New
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“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”
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“Maurice kept writing, though. It’s hard to stop, once you’ve acquired the habit. On the page, he could say things he didn’t seem able to say out loud. It was calm there, and in his control. Once he told a friend, “I write essays, and because nobody reads my essays, I send them as letters to people.”
― A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
― A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
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