I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONNo; 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.
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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Affluence means influence.
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