The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONA 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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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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