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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.

Jack London

To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDON

Forget One Liner Peace Sanity
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON

Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
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.
JACK LONDON

Believe Death Freedom Myself
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.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDON

Eat Economics Food Man Politics System Word
Affluence means influence.
JACK LONDON

Influence Meaning One Liner
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDON

Concentration Focus Story Writing
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON

Man Poet Writing
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDON

Himself Lingering Sleep Wild Wolf
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON

Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDON

Possession Pursuit Unity
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
JACK LONDON

Limitation Mindset Recognition
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 LONDON

Existence Inspirational Life Live Man Myself Proper Time Try Wasted
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDON

Avoid Close Desire Dog Fire Herself Man Thrill
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.
JACK LONDON

Alone Death Food Hustle Legs Man Sunrise Walk Yourself
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDON

Easy Existence Life Live Place
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON

Art Conquer Greatness Man
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDON

Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
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.
JACK LONDON

Beginning Disappointment Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Patience Preparation
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 LONDON

Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDON

Existence Function Live Man One Liner
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDON

Choice Eat Kill Law Time
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDON

Deep Philosophy True
Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDON

Capture Death Goodness Possession Run
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON

Dedication Inspirational Wait Yourself
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.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown

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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