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.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Life, 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.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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