Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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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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