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.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
More Jack London Quotes
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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