It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONThe 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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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