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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.

Jack London

Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Capture Death Goodness Possession Run
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Choice Life Meaning Myself Short Sing Song
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Man Poet Writing
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
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Concentration Focus Story Writing
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Desire Pain Possession Seek
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
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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Alone Death Food Hustle Legs Man Sunrise Walk Yourself
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.
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Description Feeling Hate Language Myself Strong Weakness Word
I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Choice Fire Myself
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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Existence Inspirational Life Live Man Myself Proper Time Try Wasted
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Bone Charity Compassionate Difference Dog Generosity Hungry Yourself
It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Alone Better Choice Support Yourself
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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Easy Existence Life Live Place

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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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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