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.
("White Fang")
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To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
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. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
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