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.
JACK LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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