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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

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The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

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The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

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Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

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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 a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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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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