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.
JACK LONDONLife, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
More Jack London Quotes
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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