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 LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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