As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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