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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

Time Man Live Trying Days

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Exist, Function, My Time, Prolong, Proper, Shall, Them, Use, Waste

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American - Novelist January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916

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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

„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

Variant: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit

Source: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.

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Jack London — ‘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.’

“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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