It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Affluence means influence.
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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.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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