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 LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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