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.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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