The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
More Jack London Quotes
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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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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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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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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