The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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