But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONLife is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
More Jack London Quotes
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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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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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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And 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.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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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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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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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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