Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
JACK KEROUACBut, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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The only truth is music.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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