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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Jack London

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.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON

Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Law Man Power
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDON

Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
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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Animal Eat Food Life Live
Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Design Man Myself Past Skin
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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End Play Yourself
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Growth Hurt Suffering Weakness
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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Alone Himself Kill Live Prey Strength Strong Survive Virtue
Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Himself Kind Man Place Value Woman
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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Desperate Happiness Hard Work Poor Remember See Success Yourself
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Encouragement Fear Growth Himself
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
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.
JACK LONDON

Description Feeling Hate Language Myself Strong Weakness Word
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 LONDON

Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction

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