The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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