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.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
More Jack London Quotes
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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