Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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