The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Affluence means influence.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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