Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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