Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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 so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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