But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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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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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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 ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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