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 LONDONIt 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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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 that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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