Monday, 26 August 2024

To Be Deceived and to Dream

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. by Sir Sidney Colvin, 5 vol (London: William Heinemann, 1924), V, p. 184 [‘To Edmund Grosse’, Dec. 1894]:

I do like to be deceived and to dream, but I have very little use for either watching or meditation.