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 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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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