The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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