It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
More Jack London Quotes
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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