Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDON
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
More Jack London Quotes
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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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.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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