Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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