I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
More Jack London Quotes
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Affluence means influence.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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