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 LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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 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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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