One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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 had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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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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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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