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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

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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Affection Bright Existence Fierce Harsh Live Material Quite Spirit Strong Sweet Warm World
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Existence Function Live Man One Liner
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Age Drink Myself Time
In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Cheap Life Poor Population
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Law Obedience Oppression Strong Weakness
Affluence means influence.
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Influence Meaning One Liner
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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Achievement Appearance Inspirational Invitation Light Yourself
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Alcohol Normal Truth
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Choice Glow Myself Personality Science Sleep Space
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.
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Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Limitation Mindset Recognition
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Age Measurement Old Youth
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Live Myself Self Love Thinking World Worth
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Death Existence Fear Life Mercy Misunderstood
I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Choice Fire Myself
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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Afraid Life Live Myself Open Shame Value

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