I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
JACK KEROUACNo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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