My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, in newspapers, magazines, and biographical dictionaries, I run upon sketches of my life, wherein, delicately phrased, I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. — Jack London Copy Share Image
The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
