Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Affluence means influence.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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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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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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