Jack London Quotes, Hate Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

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It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

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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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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

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Not all the monsters have fangs.

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

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The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shivering. He still managed to hold himself together. It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct. He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men.

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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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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 proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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I was jealous; therefore I loved.

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

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more you drink more you want

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They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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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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