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 LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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