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Jack London

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“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.” Jack London, White Fang
“Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.” Jack London, White Fang
“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.” Jack London, White Fang
“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.” Jack London, White Fang
“He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.” Jack London, White Fang
“And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.” Jack London, White Fang
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in...” Jack London, White Fang
“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.” Jack London, White Fang
“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.” Jack London, White Fang
“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.” Jack London, White Fang
“His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.” Jack London, White Fang
“The clay of White Fang had been moulded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.” Jack London, White Fang
“still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” Jack London, White Fang
“They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.” Jack London, White Fang
“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.” Jack London, White Fang
“He was never disturbed over why a thing happened. How it happened was sufficient for him.” Jack London, White Fang
“He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.” Jack London, White Fang
“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.” Jack London, White Fang
“In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been so moulded in the making.” Jack London, White Fang
“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.” Jack London, White Fang
“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.” Jack London, White Fang
“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.” Jack London, White Fang
“In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.” Jack London, White Fang
“He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.” Jack London, White Fang

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