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 KEROUACPain or love or danger makes you real again.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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 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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On 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.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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