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.
JACK KEROUACSo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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