The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Affluence means influence.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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