Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
More Jack London Quotes
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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