You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
JACK LONDON
There 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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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