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The function of man is to live, not to exist.

Jack London

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.
JACK LONDON

Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Age Measurement Old Youth
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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Afraid Choice Heart Live Myself Sing Song Wild
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Behavior Character Cruelty Intelligence Man Stupidity
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Law Obedience Oppression Strong Weakness
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Art Conquer Greatness Man
Strength is an empty shell.
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Empty One Liner Strength
Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Capture Death Goodness Possession Run
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
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.
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Achievement Appearance Inspirational Invitation Light Yourself
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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Animal Eat Food Life Live
To be able to forget means sanity.
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Forget One Liner Peace Sanity
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Fury Himself Silence Tame
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
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
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
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
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Better Goodness Joke Measurement Poem Quick
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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Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
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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Beginning Disappointment Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Patience Preparation
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Existence Function Live Man 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
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Class God Himself Mom
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Growth Hurt Suffering Weakness
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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Alone Himself Kill Live Prey Strength Strong Survive Virtue
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDON

Law Lie Man Shame

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