It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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