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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1882
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Purpose of lifeAuthenticityPersonal growth
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Travel writing
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1882
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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