The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONAnd 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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