I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
JACK KEROUACLife must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The silence was an intense roar.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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