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 LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
More Jack London Quotes
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Affluence means influence.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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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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