Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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.
JACK LONDON