Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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