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.
JACK LONDONHe 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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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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