He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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 Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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