I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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