There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

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.

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