Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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