You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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