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All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

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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Deep See Thinking Wake Up
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
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
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
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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Bliss Ecstasy Essence Forever Happiness Mindset Ourselves Thinking True
Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Goodness Life Love Rich
What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Direction Journey Myself Path Store
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Bed Better Comfortable Freedom Sleep
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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Darkness Enlightenment Light True Wisdom
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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Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
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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Live Madness Myself People Save Talk
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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People River Separate Start Yourself
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
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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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe

All of life is a foreign country.

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