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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The Stone the Builders Rejected.
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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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Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.
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. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!
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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
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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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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 write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
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