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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?

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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.
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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 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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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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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
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Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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