Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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