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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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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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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.
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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
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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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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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My mistake was in ever opening the books.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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