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.
JACK LONDONAge is never so old as youth would measure it.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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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.
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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