White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDONHe had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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