The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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