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 LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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 do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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