I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONShe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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