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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

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

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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

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Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

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A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

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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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There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.

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But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

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To be able to forget means sanity.

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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

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The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.

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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

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The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

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