The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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