But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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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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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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