It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.


The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. 1906)

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge...

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge...

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge...

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge...