I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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Affluence means influence.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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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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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.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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