Love 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.
JACK LONDONGo strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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 Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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