“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
— Jack London Primary source“Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
— Jack London Primary source“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”
— Jack London Primary source“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
— Jack London Primary source“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
— Jack London Primary source“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”
— Jack London Primary source“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London Disputed“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London Primary sourceGeorge Orwell Ian Fleming William Ralph Inge Franklin D. Roosevelt William Blake