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 LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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 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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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