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.
JACK LONDONLove 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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