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.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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