I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONThere 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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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 aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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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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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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