Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 4, 2026

…freedom is of the essence; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you

Robert Louis Stevenson, Walking Tours, 1881

Our note: The reason he gives, in the same essay, for walking alone.

Verified in the full text of Walking Tours on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #386 · Collected in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers

Painted the same decade: Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", Georges Seurat, 1884

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