The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
JACK LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
More Jack London Quotes
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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