I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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