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?
JACK KEROUACGenius gives birth, talent delivers.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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.
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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 best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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Everything 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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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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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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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