But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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