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.
JACK KEROUACOn soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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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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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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