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.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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