I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
More Jack London Quotes
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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’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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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