Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDON
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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