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. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London

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Tattoos
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it…. – Author unknown, “Flowers of Literature,” 1803

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Carpe Diem

We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Carpe Diem

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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Carpe Diem

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. – Horace

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Carpe Diem

Random Quotes

Im mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. – Sarah Zettel

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Science

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? – George Clason

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Action

I dont cook. I dont know anything about food. Ive never reviewed a restaurant. – Calvin Trillin

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Food

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. – Author Unknown

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Horses