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.
JACK LONDONAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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