Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Affluence means influence.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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