Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONAge is never so old as youth would measure it.
More Jack London Quotes
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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