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 LONDONTo be able to forget means sanity.
More Jack London Quotes
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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