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It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.

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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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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

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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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Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

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I would rather be ashes than dust.

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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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A man with a club is a law-maker.

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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.

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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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

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But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

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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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The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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