I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
JACK KEROUACWhat’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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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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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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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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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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