So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
More Jack London Quotes
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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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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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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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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