Strength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDONMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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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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