Jack London Quotes, Life Quotes, Stars Quotes

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.

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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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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

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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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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

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The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

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And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

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When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

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Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

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The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

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