Quotes from Jack London

La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.

Maria was amazed to learn that he had been in the Azores, where she had lived until she was eleven. She was doubly amazed that he had been in the Hawaiian Islands, whither she had migrated from the Azores with her people.

Es sind die Begegnungen mit Menschen, die das Leben so trübsinnig machen.

Buck possedeva una qualità necessaria alla grandezza, la fantasia.

This out of all will remain – They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost.

But the man dreaming greatly and pressed by sordid necessity, he is the man who must confront the absolute contradiction. He is the man who cannot pour his artist-soul into his work and exchange that work for bread and meat. The world is strangely and coldly averse to his exchanging the joy of his heart for the solace of his stomach. And to him is it given to discover that what the world prizes most it demands least, and that what it clamors the loudest after it does not prize at all.

El objeto, el fin de la vida, era la carne. La vida misma era carne. La vida vivía de la vida. Unos comían y otros eran comidos. La ley consistía, pues, en eso: come o sé comido.

Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that. You've learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good dog and all 'll go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffin' outa you. Understand?

water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from

And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love, is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out on us if we'll only travel that far?" –Inscription in George Sterling's copy of The Road, March 26, 1914

potency of motion

The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real.

They were all of the same flesh, after all, sisters under their skins;

A vida que é vivida é uma vida com sucesso e o sucesso é como o ar que se respira.

That is new-womanish talk," he frowned. "Equal rights, the ballot, and all that.

This is the revolution, my masters. Stop it if you can.

Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él

The Church does not protest against it," Ernest replied. "And in so far as the Church does not protest, it condones, for remember the Church is supported by the capitalist class.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

They may not know it, but it is a pose. In so far as they cultivate salient peculiarities, they cultivate falseness to themselves and live lies.

Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.

vard???n hükümler, okuduÄŸun kitaplarla paraleldir mutlaka.

Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life—the crowd of players, society. The table

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.