Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONToo much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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