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In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Jack London

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.
JACK LONDON

Achievement Appearance Inspirational Invitation Light Yourself
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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Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
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.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
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.
JACK LONDON

Bone Charity Compassionate Difference Dog Generosity Hungry Yourself
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Desire Pain Possession Seek
Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Design Man Myself Past Skin
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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Alive Beyond Forget Life Live Oneself Rise
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDON

Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Cheap Life Poor Population
It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Alone Better Choice Support Yourself
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDON

Himself Kind Man Place Value Woman
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDON

Concentration Focus Story Writing
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Carry Destroy Heart Himself Principle
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.
JACK LONDON

Couple Desire Fulfill Love Nature Pain Peace Possession Satisfaction
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON

Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Law Lie Man Shame
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDON

Class God Himself Mom
Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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End Play Yourself
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDON

Choice Life Meaning Myself Short Sing Song
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Alcohol Normal Truth
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Age Measurement Old Youth
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDON

Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDON

Existence Function Live Man One Liner

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

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