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 LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
More Jack London Quotes
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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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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