Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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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 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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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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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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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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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The silence was an intense roar.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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