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  1. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God's thunderbolts........hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of God's angels he had led with him, and straightaway he incited man to rebel against God, and gained for himself and hell a major portion of all the generations of man. Why was he beaten out of heaven? Because he was less brave than God? less proud? less aspiring? No! A thousand times no! God was more powerful, as he said, Whom thunder had made greater. But Lucifer was a free spirit. To serve was to suffocate. He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of comfortable servility. He did not care to serve God. He cared to serve nothing. He was no figurehead. He stood on his own legs. He was an individual.
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  2. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature. There
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  3. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    Between us and the bottom of the sea was less than an inch of wood. And yet, I aver it, and I aver it again, I was unafraid.
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  4. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    This is the first time I have heard 'ethics' in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.
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  5. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.
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  6. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.
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  7. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
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  8. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.
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  9. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
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  10. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves. You wear the warm clothes. They made the clothes, but they shiver in rags and ask you, the lawyer, or business agent who handles your money, for a job.'But that is beside the matter,' I cried.Not at all. It is piggishness and it is life. Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about? You have made no food. Yet the food you have eaten or wasted might have saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the food but did not eat it. What immortal end did you serve? Or did they?
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  11. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen
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  12. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
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