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| da840c9 | men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. | Jack London | ||
| 114506c | Didn't know she was spoken for." "You do now", Jack snarled. "And the next time you try to pass off your bloody Fae nectar on a human, I'll shove your little horned head up your arse and hold it there until you stop twitching." | Caitlin Kittredge | ||
| cf1dc01 | It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life. | bravery cowardness life | Jack London | |
| 25e3e97 | He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. | Jack London | ||
| fb01798 | What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance. | Jack London | ||
| 611cd57 | In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making. | Jack London | ||
| 727817c | He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. | Jack London | ||
| e098fe9 | Wakens the ferine strain. | Jack London | ||
| 4d5cfce | Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form. | editing writing | Jack London | |
| 88d2d80 | You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| f0a4941 | According to a recent poll [...] 94% of Americans agree that "people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 7783e24 | What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 87aca47 | I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash. | money property | Louisa May Alcott | |
| c894897 | Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, 'Oh, do somebody go down quick; John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it! | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 015fec1 | Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret... | louisa-may-alcott secrets | Louisa May Alcott | |
| cae3288 | ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. | ridicule self-denial | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 2083d4f | I should have cause to be proud of this year's work;' and Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to when she was a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps that some of them came to pass in reality for charity is an excellent foundation to build anything upon. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 707a62d | E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4884d84 | I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6f44a5f | It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnly... | louisa-may-alcott women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 40acfe1 | He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 59f4976 | Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die! | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 115f21b | Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy." | girls jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d1a91b1 | There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ee2fe63 | Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake. In some the plums are all on the top, and we eat them gayly, till we suddenly find they are gone. In others the plums sink to the bottom, and we look for them in vain as we go on, and often come to them when it is too late to enjoy them. But in the well-made cake, the plums are wisely scattered all through, and every mouthful is a pleasure. We make our own cakes, in a great measure, therefore let us loo.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5229861 | When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6030069 | We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Out burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City. Now, my little pilgrims, suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how far on you can get before Father comes home. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| bd37504 | I told my plan to Fritz once, and he said it was just what he would like, and agreed to try it when we got rich. Bless his dear heart, he's been doing it all his life--helping poor boys, I mean, not getting rich, that he'll never be. Money doesn't stay in his pocket long enough to lay up any. But now, thanks to my good old aunt, who loved me better than I ever deserved, I'm rich, at least I feel so, and we can live at Plumfield perfectly we.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a1ca202 | A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| beb1684 | We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 59bdc45 | The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c0c4b86 | Everything you know gained from experience | Jostein Gaarder | ||
| c4b0cdb | Todo lo que existe nace sin razon, se prolonga por debilidad, y muere por casualidad | Jean Paul Sartre | ||
| a979499 | Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.' 'I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head. 'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it'.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9a56868 | Je pense, lui dis-je, que nous voila, tous tant que nous sommes, a manger et a boire pour conserver notre precieuse existence et qu'il n'y a rien, rien, aucune raison d'exister... L'autodidacte repondit que la vie a un sens si on veut bien lui en donner un. Il faut d'abord agir, se jeter dans une entreprise. Il y a un but, Monsieur, il y a un but... il y a les hommes. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 20f2ec6 | I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 5971361 | It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns ... It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, th.. | sartre thoughts words | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 8d6783a | From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| cf7985f | to do something is to create existence | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8630940 | I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity, I had understood nothing. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 399c135 | To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fb69892 | l ymkn 'n 'dll `l~ Hqyq@ `Tft~ wklm~ l dh mrst dhlk f`lan. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a6ed2fd | You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure. | philosophy | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| be2aa36 | If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing. | freedom french-literature jean-paul-sartre philosophy the-age-of-reason the-roads-to-freedom | Jean-Paul Sartre |