Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONYou 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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Affluence means influence.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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