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 LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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 do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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