One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
More Jack London Quotes
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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 would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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