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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Jack London

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
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Law Lie Man Shame
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
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
I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Choice Fire Myself
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Easy Existence Life Live Place
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
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
Strength is an empty shell.
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Empty One Liner Strength
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON

Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Concentration Focus Story Writing
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Alone Book Company Friendship Himself Reading
You 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.
JACK LONDON

Alone Death Food Hustle Legs Man Sunrise Walk Yourself
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDON

Behavior Character Cruelty Intelligence Man Stupidity

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