One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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