One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONI 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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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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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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