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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.

Jack Kerouac

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
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
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
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Adventure Crazy End Sky
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Life Myself One Liner
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Bitter Fierce Myself People Result True
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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Forever Gold Goodness Myself Night Soft Stars
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
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Evidence Kindness Rest Yourself
The only truth is music.
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Music One Liner Truth
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
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 promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Death Give Up Laughter Myself Promise
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

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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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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