Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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 write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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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.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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