Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
JACK LONDONThere’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.
More Jack London Quotes
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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