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 LONDONI’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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