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“He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“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. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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