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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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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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

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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Carpe Diem

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

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Carpe Diem

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. – Karl Lagerfeld

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