The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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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.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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