He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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 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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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