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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

Jack London

Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Desire Pain Possession Seek
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Concentration Focus Story Writing
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Carry Destroy Heart Himself Principle
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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Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction
Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Capture Death Goodness Possession Run
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Ghost Greatness Life Silence Wake Up Way Winter
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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Existence Inspirational Life Live Man Myself Proper Time Try Wasted
I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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Afraid Choice Heart Live Myself Sing Song Wild
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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Brilliance Burn Choice Fire Myself Spark
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Law Lie Man Shame
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Man Poet Writing
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
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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Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

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