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.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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.
JACK LONDON







