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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
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I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!
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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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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
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The Stone the Builders Rejected.
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My mistake was in ever opening the books.
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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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