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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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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.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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