Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDONBut I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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