"He was always striving to attain it. The……" — Jack London
"He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread."
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95 Quotes by Jack London
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