Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDONHe was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
More Jack London Quotes
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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