Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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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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