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.
JACK LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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