You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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