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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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