Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUACThe fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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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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The only truth is music.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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