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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Jack London

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDON

Avoid Close Desire Dog Fire Herself Man Thrill
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
JACK LONDON

Believe Death Freedom Myself
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON

Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
JACK LONDON

Afraid Choice Heart Live Myself Sing Song Wild
Not all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
JACK LONDON

Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDON

Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDON

Art Deep Existence Love Reason
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
JACK LONDON

Fury Himself Silence Tame
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON

Art Conquer Greatness Man
You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
JACK LONDON

Desperate Happiness Hard Work Poor Remember See Success Yourself
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDON

Growth Hurt Suffering Weakness
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON

Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDON

Empty One Liner Strength
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON

Man Poet Writing

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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