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.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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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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