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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Jack London

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.
JACK LONDON

Afraid Life Live Myself Open Shame Value
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON

Art Conquer Greatness Man
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDON

Ghost Greatness Life Silence Wake Up Way Winter
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON

Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
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 LONDON

Believe Death Freedom Myself
I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDON

Choice Fire Myself
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON

Man Poet Writing
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDON

Age Drink Myself Time
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.
JACK LONDON

Alone Death Food Hustle Legs Man Sunrise Walk Yourself
Affluence means influence.
JACK LONDON

Influence Meaning One Liner
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDON

Desire Pain Possession Seek
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
JACK LONDON

Carry Destroy Heart Himself Principle
But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDON

Change Judgement Kind Man Myself Taste
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON

Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDON

Law Man Power

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