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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.

Jack London

It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDON

Alone Better Choice Support Yourself
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
JACK LONDON

Age Measurement Old Youth
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDON

Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
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.
JACK LONDON

Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDON

Existence Function Live Man One Liner
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.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
Not all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDON

Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDON

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.
JACK LONDON

Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDON

Forget One Liner Peace Sanity
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.
JACK LONDON

Existence Inspirational Life Live Man Myself Proper Time Try Wasted
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDON

Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
JACK LONDON

Fury Himself Silence Tame
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
JACK LONDON

Beautiful Myself Purpose Writing

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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