The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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