Quote by Jack London
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not w

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. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

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

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Time
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London

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Beauty
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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. – Jack London

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Helping
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Other Quotes from
Time
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, Ive done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? – Douglas MacArthur

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Time

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. – Mason Cooley

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Time

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. – Rodney Dangerfield

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Time

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. – Khalil Gibran

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Time

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Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. – Mira Nair

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie

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Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr

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