As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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