It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDONThe Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
More Jack London Quotes
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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