Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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