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.
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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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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