In a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDONI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
More Jack London Quotes
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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