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 LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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