My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
JACK KEROUACThere was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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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.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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 fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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?
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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 feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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