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“The truth is, sometimes things don’t happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it’s just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it's not going to change anything?”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Even the smartest person in the world could be scared by what he did or did not understand.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly.
When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That’s the question. I’ve been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the same old brain. And what is puzzling me is why they want me now. Surely they don’t want me for myself, for myself the same olf self they did not want. They must want me for something else, for something that is outside of me, for something that is not I. Shall I tell you what that something is? It is for the recognition I have recieved. That recognition is not I. Then again for the money I have earned and am earnin. But money is not I. And is it for the recognition and money, that you now want me?”
― Jack London, Мартин Иден

“Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Beauty is the only master to serve.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another’s opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“He couldn’t fake being their kind. The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature. There was no room in him for sham or artifice. Whatever happened, he must be real. He”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Why should I and the beauty in me be ruled by the dead? Beauty is alive and everlasting. Languages come and go. They are the dust of the dead.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“He had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heavensent dreams and divine possibilities.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“He felt very old---centuries older than those careless, care-free young companions of his others [sic] days. He had traveled far, too far to go back. Their mode of life, which had once been his, was now distasteful to him. He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had traveled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence