Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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