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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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Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991)

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

White Fang (1906)

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.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

The Sea-Wolf (1904)

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