I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
More Jack London Quotes
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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