As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDONTo be able to forget means sanity.
More Jack London Quotes
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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