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Jack London

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Born 1876 in San Francisco · Died 1916 in Glen Ellen

writer, novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, journalist · United States

Notable works: The Call of the Wild, The People of the Abyss, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Roads

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The Call of the Wild

From Project Gutenberg e-text #215 (public domain in the USA).

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

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White Fang

From Project Gutenberg e-text #910 (public domain in the USA).

He knew the law even better than did the dogs that had known no other life, and he observed the law more punctiliously; but 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.

IV. THE CALL OF KINDRead in context →

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.

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The People of the Abyss

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1688 (public domain in the USA).

Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation; and when the workers are segregated in the Ghetto, they cannot escape the consequent degradation.

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Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.

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Martin Eden

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1056 (public domain in the USA).

But I am I, and I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXIV

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Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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