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.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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