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I would rather be ashes than dust.

Jack London

Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
JACK LONDON

Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Alcohol Normal Truth
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
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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Alive Beyond Forget Life Live Oneself Rise
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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Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Age Measurement Old Youth
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Alone Book Company Friendship Himself Reading
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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Afraid Life Live Myself Open Shame Value
Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Design Man Myself Past Skin
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Deep Philosophy True
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Age Drink Myself Time
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Ghost Greatness Life Silence Wake Up Way Winter

I would rather be ashes than dust.

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