The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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.
Not all the monsters have fangs.
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
To be able to forget means sanity.
I would rather be ashes than dust.
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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