I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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’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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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