The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONLife, 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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