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1  It is the desire that decides.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  He may desire to escape pain, or to enjoy pleasure.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  And as he left me I was aware of the same desire at my heart.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  It is the wind that fans the desire until it leaps up to mastery.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  For look you," he was saying, "as I see it, a man does things because of desire.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  I was wild with desire, like a child with a new toy, to hoist something with my shears.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  I hesitated, the desire to race back and up the steps to the deck almost overpowering me.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  If it is a good soul, it will desire and do the good action, and the contrary if it is a bad soul.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  So I thought it out at the time, feeling the need for vindication and desiring to be at peace with my conscience.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  It may not fan sufficiently to make the desire overmastering, but in so far as it fans at all, that far is it temptation.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Wolf Larsen, evidently, had sifted the great philosopher's teachings, rejecting and selecting according to his needs and desires.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  It is fanned, as by a wind, by sight of the thing desired, or by a new and luring description or comprehension of the thing desired.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  This, too, I learned, and quickly, for I felt somehow a wild desire to vindicate myself in Wolf Larsen's eyes, to prove my right to live in ways other than of the mind.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  "I think that he is a better man than you are," I answered, impelled, somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt was about to break upon his head.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  You lay the stress upon the desire apart from the soul, Miss Brewster lays the stress on the soul apart from the desire, and in point of fact soul and desire are the same thing.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
16  It was an even choice between this and the west-north-westerly course which the wind permitted; but the warm airs of the south fanned my desire for a warmer sea and swayed my decision.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
17  Then, as the moments went by, it came to me that the situation was analogous to the one in which I had approached the long-maned bull, my intention of clubbing obscured by fear until it became a desire to make him run.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
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