The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUACMy aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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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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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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