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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.

Jack Kerouac

I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Argument Dog God Love Master Wisdom
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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Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
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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Act Easy Feeling Goodness Inspirational Leaving Myself Possible Rich Surprise
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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Experience Health Hide Learning Life Man Solitude Strength True
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Leadership Road Spiritual World
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Location Silence
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
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Death Easy End Serious Start Yourself
The only truth is music.
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Music One Liner Truth
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
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Acceptance Life Love Yourself
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself

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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