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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

Jack London

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Fame Money Popular
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Behavior Character Cruelty Intelligence Man Stupidity
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Himself Lingering Sleep Wild Wolf
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Age Measurement Old Youth
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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Existence Inspirational Life Live Man Myself Proper Time Try Wasted
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Brilliance Burn Choice Fire Myself Spark
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Deep Philosophy True
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Art Conquer Greatness Man
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Man Poet Writing
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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Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Art Deep Existence Love Reason
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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Choice Eat Kill Law Time
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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Believe Death Freedom Myself
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.
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Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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End Play Yourself
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

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