Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDONI would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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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.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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