The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
More Jack London Quotes
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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 ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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