Jack London: Frasi in inglese

“It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself”

Jack London

“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

“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 libro Il richiamo della foresta

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

“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 survive.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“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.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

Jack London

“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

Jack London libro The Sea-Wolf

“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”

Jack London libro Il richiamo della foresta

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

Jack London Martin Eden

“more you drink
more you want”

Jack London