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 LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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 Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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 scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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