The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDON
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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