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?
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.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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.
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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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 only truth is music.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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