Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONI 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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 would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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.
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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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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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