Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
JACK KEROUACEverything 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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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.
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