Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDONYou 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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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 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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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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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