Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDONHe was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 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.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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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.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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