Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDONLove 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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 ashes than dust.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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