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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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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