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.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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