Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONYou 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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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