The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Book Review N°15

“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.”

“For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.”

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

“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.” 

“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.”