Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONThe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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