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Jack London Quotes: I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
         

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.


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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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