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.
JACK LONDONAnd 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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