The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONI would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
More Jack London Quotes
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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His 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.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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