Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
More Jack London Quotes
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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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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