Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDONLove 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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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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