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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?

Jack Kerouac

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.
JACK KEROUAC

Act Cry Feeling World Yourself
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
JACK KEROUAC

Heaven Kindness Practice Yourself
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Leadership Road Spiritual World
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC

People Phone Poetry
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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Enjoyment Live Myself Nature Need Solitude Stop Thinking
What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Direction Journey Myself Path Store
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
JACK KEROUAC

Build Empty Freedom Glow Life Myself Page Power
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC

Nature Reality Spiritual World
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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Himself Nature Place Stars Stay Tired
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Eyes Life Myself Tears
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.
JACK KEROUAC

Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
JACK KEROUAC

Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUAC

Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
JACK KEROUAC

Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?

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