I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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