I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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