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.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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