Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONThere 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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