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 LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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