Jack London
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The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself
It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.
When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist.
But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant.
whined placatingly, squirmed and wriggled
“This out of all will remain — They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost.”
They were fire-makers! They were gods.
