Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 dissapointments.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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