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.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
More Jack London Quotes
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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 aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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