Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONYou stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Affluence means influence.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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