The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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