Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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He 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.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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