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  1. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    the human soul is a lonely thing
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  2. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    Also, as I looked at the mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought, this is the type that on occasion rears barricades and shows the world that men have not forgotten how to die.
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  3. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived."
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  4. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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  5. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.
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  6. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives is materialistic. They are stupid and heavy, without imagination. The Abyss seems to exude a stupefying atmosphere of torpor, which wraps about them and deadens them. Religion passes them by. The Unseen holds for them neither terror nor delight. They are unaware of the Unseen; and the full belly and the evening pipe, with their regular "arf an' arf," is all they demand, or dream of demanding, from existence.
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  7. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world
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  8. Jack London _ The People of the Abyss

    Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation"
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