Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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