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.
JACK LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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