Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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