So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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