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.
JACK LONDONGo 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Affluence means influence.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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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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