Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONHe 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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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His 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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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