The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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 aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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