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.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
More Jack London Quotes
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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.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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