One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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 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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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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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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