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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDON

Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
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.
JACK LONDON

Believe Death Freedom Myself
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDON

Alcohol Normal Truth
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.
JACK LONDON

Bone Charity Compassionate Difference Dog Generosity Hungry Yourself
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
JACK LONDON

Limitation Mindset Recognition
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON

Man Poet Writing
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDON

Age Drink Myself Time
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDON

Desire Pain Possession Seek
Not all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDON

Possession Pursuit Unity
In a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDON

Cheap Life Poor Population
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDON

Better Goodness Joke Measurement Poem Quick
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 LONDON

Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON

Art Conquer Greatness Man
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON

Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space

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