Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
JACK LONDONI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
More Jack London Quotes
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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