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Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"
For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.
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.
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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.
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.
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.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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
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.
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.
The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.
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.
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
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.
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.
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.