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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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