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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. (Jack London)
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you. View quote
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more you drink more you want. View quote
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And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know. View quote
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers. View quote
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. View quote
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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. View quote
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. View quote
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It was the worst hurt he had ever known. (Jack London)
I was jealous; therefore I loved. View quote
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I am. I was. I am not. I never am. View quote
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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? View quote
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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. View quote
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. View quote
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Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin. View quote
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Such is my outlook. I look forward to a time when man shall progress upon something worthier and higher than his stomach, when there will be a finer incentive to impel men to action than the incentive of to-day, which is the incentive of the stomach. I retain my belief in the nobility and excellence of the human. I believe that spiritual sweetness and unselfishness will conquer the gross gluttony of to-day. And last of all, my faith is in the working-class. As some Frenchman has said, "The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending." View quote
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He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. View quote
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It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma. View quote
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received. (Jack London)
These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed. View quote
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him. View quote
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Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman. View quote
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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. View quote
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