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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.

Jack London

The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Existence Function Live Man One Liner
Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
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
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
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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Description Feeling Hate Language Myself Strong Weakness Word
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
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
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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Afraid Life Live Myself Open Shame Value
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Class God Himself Mom
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Man Poet Writing
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Himself Lingering Sleep Wild Wolf
I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Choice Fire Myself
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Age Drink Myself Time
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Behavior Character Cruelty Intelligence Man Stupidity

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