Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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No; 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.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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