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.
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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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