Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
More Jack London Quotes
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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