The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
More Jack London Quotes
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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