"Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and……" — Jack London
"Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget."
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Jack London
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95 Quotes by Jack London
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just…
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching…
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about,…
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For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines…
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Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
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