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 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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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