Quotes from Jack London

The Complete Novels of Jack London

And so we come to it—the everlasting mystery of woman. One may not be able to get along with her; yet is it patent, as of old time, that one cannot get along without her.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

Zaten her ÅŸey geçip gider.

Anthony Starkweather. An elderly, well preserved gentleman, slenderly built, showing all the signs of a man who has lived clean and has been almost an ascetic.

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.

Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. He is absolutely certain that civilization and progress rest on his shoulders and upon the shoulders of the small group of men like him.

Dac? mi-ar fi dat s? aleg între a fi obligat s? tr?iesc în Molokai tot restul vieÈ›ii, sau în East End-ul Londrei, East Side-ul New Yorkului sau Stockyard-ul Chicago-ului, aÅŸ alege Molokai-ul f?r? s? ÅŸov?i. AÅŸ prefera un singur an în Molokai pentru cinci ani de via?? în oricare din celelalte locuri amintite - haznale ale degrad?rii ÅŸi mizeriei umane.

No os habéis preocupado jamás por saber lo que será de vosotros cuando los mismos consorcios se fusionen en el trust de los trusts, en una organización a un tiempo social, económica y política.

Preferirei essere cenere che polvere! Preferirei che la mia fiamma bruciasse in una vampa brillante piuttosto che venire ricoperto dalla muffa. Preferirei essere un magnifico meteorite, con atomi che bruciano e si infiammano, piuttosto che un pianeta immobile e assopito. La natura dell'uomo è vivere, non esistere. Non ho intenzione di sprecare i miei giorni nel tentativo di prolungarli, voglio viverli.

GeçmiÅŸi olmayan ;geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan,bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

consciousness

Often the man felt that he had bucked against the very essence of life—the unconquerable essence that swept the hawk down out of the sky like a feathered thunderbolt, that drove the great gray goose across the zones, that hurled the spawning salmon through two thousand miles of boiling Yukon flood.

La obligación real del hombre es vivir, no existir

Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.

this in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone

She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal, up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from the damp cloth under the irons of the many ironers. From the girls and women near her

Mi ha spiegato che quando s'increspava le sopracciglia e la fronte, voleva dire che c'erano delle grinze nel mio cervello ed è brutto avere grinze nei propri pensieri.

cautiously and slowly behind and edged in between the old leader and

Knee-deep in the wild oats of the hillside grazed two horses, chestnut-sorrels the pair of them, perfectly matched, warm and golden in the sunshine, their spring-coats a sheen of high-lights shot through with color-flashes that glowed like fiery jewels.

Lobby—a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.