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“It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself”

Jack London

“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.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

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

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild (1903)

“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

Source: White Fang

“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

Jack London

Variant: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.

“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

Jack London book The Sea-Wolf

Source: The Sea Wolf

“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“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 Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

Source: White Fang

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

Jack London Martin Eden

Source: Martin Eden

“more you drink
more you want”

Jack London